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Chapter 4: Reinventing the Wheel - Coggle Diagram
Chapter 4: Reinventing the Wheel
People
Alice Cogswell: lost her hearing at age 2 in November 1807
Brewster: 50 years old, oldest classmate to Alice at the Asylum
Charles Michel de I'Epee: founder of deaf education in France
Francis Green: later to become a professor for the Deaf and Dumb
Charolette Elizabeth Phelan: deaf at the age 10, took deaf children off the street in Ireland
Important
Old Alphabet: finger alphabets commonly used amongst school boys
I'Epee and Sicard: for human and moral progress, for individual apprehension, of truth, for improvement through science and empiricism
Braidwoods and Anglician Ministers: more concerned with dogma and the achievement of spiritual salvation
Oral Instruction
Prussia
trained in speech production and lip reading
taught academic subjects they could not hear
Made to recite artificially acquired vocalization
Manual instruction
Natural signed language
Practice nowhere in the early 19th century
Paris school taught in manually encoded French