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Chapter Two Origins of Deaf Learning in America - Coggle Diagram
Chapter Two
Origins of Deaf Learning in America
Earliest Deaf Americans
First formalization of American signing (1817)
First school for deaf students opened
Martha's Vineyard
deaf people residents
Chilmark, an isolated town
Intermarriages and large families
1 in every 4 babies were deaf
19th century marriage consisted of hearing and deaf people
Chilmark Sign Language known as Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL)
Earliest Attempts at Mainstream Education
First mainstreaming in early 1700s
18th century teaching deaf children were done by parents of deaf children or relatives
Pioneers in Signing Deaf Education
Alice Cogswell
the young girl that was taught by THG
Frist student to enroll at Connecticut Asylum at Hartford
completed school in 1823
died 10 days after her fathers death
Laurent Clerc
first deaf teacher of the deaf in America
become deaf at one years-old
Friends with Jean Massieu
Performed for hearing people
Was able to read, write, and communicate in sign language
Had 6 Hearing children
used French Sign Language for instruction
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Observed a young girl with difficult in communicating
discussed lack of education for deaf children with Cogswell
went to Europe to learn teaching methods
did not speak french
After retirement worked against slavery
wrote children books and articles
First school Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb persons in 1817
Founding made by Cogswell, Thomas Gallaudet, and Clerc
Origins of Education in Washington, D.C.
Amos Kendall
journalist
invested in the telegraph
Gain guardianship of 5 children
donated two acres of his estate to establish housing and a school
Edward Miner Gallaudet
teacher
asked congress to fund college
prepared a bill and signed by Abraham Lincoln
Involved with civic related activities
Sophia Fowler
deaf
Her and her sisters enrolled
married THG and had hearing children
served as a matron of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind for 9 years
one of the first deaf lobbyists
Pioneers in Oral Deaf Education
Alexander Graham Bell
inventor of the telephone
born to a deaf mother
communicated with wife and mother using speech and speechreading
involved with eugenics
considered deaf people defective
believed if deaf children signed then they will not be fluent in English
advocated sterilization of deaf people and prohibit marriage upon deaf people
Oral Method
New York Institution for the Improved Instruction of Deaf Mutes founded in 1867.
Renamed as Lexington School for the Deaf