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  2. Deafness in Haiti - Wikipedia

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    This teacher offered sign language classes to parents of deaf children and other people in the community that showed interest. [2] ASL is the sign language used by Deaf Haitians who were fortunate enough to receive an education at deaf schools. [2] However, most Deaf Haitians rely on home signing or have little to no language accessibility. [2]

  3. List of schools for the deaf - Wikipedia

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    Lexington School for the Deaf: 1864: East Elmurst: New York: PreK-12: Blue Jays: ESDAA Alaska State School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing: 1973: Anchorage: Alaska: PreK-12: Otter: American School for the Deaf: 1817: Hartford: Connecticut: K-12: Tigers: ESDAA 1 Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and Blind: 1912: Tucson: Arizona: PreK-12 ...

  4. American School for the Deaf - Wikipedia

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    The first deaf school in the United States was short-lived: established in 1815 by Col. William Bolling of Goochland, Virginia, in nearby Cobbs, with John Braidwood (tutor of Bolling's two deaf children) as teacher, it closed in the fall of 1816. [3] Gallaudet Memorial by Daniel Chester French (1925) at American School for the Deaf

  5. Bilingual–bicultural education - Wikipedia

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    Bilingual–Bicultural or Bi-Bi deaf education programs use sign language as the native, or first, language of Deaf children. In the United States, for example, Bi-Bi proponents state that American Sign Language (ASL) should be the natural first language for deaf children in the United States, although the majority of deaf and hard of hearing being born to hearing parents.

  6. Gertrude Scott Galloway - Wikipedia

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    Gertrude Scott was born on November 12, 1930, in Washington, D.C. [1] She was born deaf to deaf parents and deaf grandparents. [1] She was enrolled in Kendall Demonstration Elementary School at age six; since she had been raised using American Sign Language, the school's teaching through oralism proved frustrating.

  7. Back-to-school help. Haiti’s armed gangs have forced more than 703,000 people out of their homes, many of them school-aged children who along with their parents have sought shelter in classrooms ...

  8. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (December 10, 1787 – September 10, 1851 [1]) was an American educator.Along with Laurent Clerc and Mason Cogswell, he co-founded the first permanent institution for the education of the deaf in North America, and he became its first principal.

  9. Deaf culture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, deaf culture was born in Connecticut in 1817 at the American School for the Deaf, when a deaf teacher from France, Laurent Clerc, was recruited by Thomas Gallaudet to help found the new institution. Under the guidance and instruction of Clerc in language and ways of living, deaf American students began to evolve their own ...