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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.
The history of deaf education in the United States began in the early 1800s when the Cobbs School of Virginia, [1] an oral school, was established by William Bolling and John Braidwood, and the Connecticut Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, a manual school, was established by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc. [1]
1894 - The college was renamed to Gallaudet College in honor of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. 1911 - The corporate name, inclusive of both the college and Primary Department, was renamed Columbia Institution for the Deaf. 1954 - The corporate name was also consolidated to Gallaudet College.
He was taught by Abbé Sicard and deaf educator Jean Massieu, at the Institution Nationale des Sourds-Muets in Paris. With Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, he co-founded the first school for the deaf in North America, the Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, on April 15, 1817, in the old Bennet's City Hotel, Hartford ...
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
EXCLUSIVE: The story of the real-life 1988 protests at all-deaf Gallaudet University that became a watershed moment for the deaf community in the U.S. is being turned into a feature film. Jules ...
The Gallaudet University Alumni Association gives the Laurent Clerc Cultural Fund Alice Cogswell Award to people for valuable service on behalf of deaf citizens. [4] [5] Cogswell is known as a remarkable figure in the history of deaf culture, illustrating a breakthrough in deaf education. She showed that the deaf are capable of being taught and ...
Seal had four deaf children who were all connected to the institutions' educational programs, Hopkins said. Brackett attended the school and had a daughter who was in early intervention, Hopkins said.