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Deaf Community
Dalgarno
First to articulate difficulty of blindness compared to deafness
Advocate for early childhood learning
Emphasized to deaf people to be persistent
Created his version of fingerspelling alphabet
Said to be the first one developed especially for deaf people
Alphabet consisted of placing letters on different parts of the palm and pointing
Five vowels located at tip of each finger
Letter "a" tip of thumb
Letter "e" tip of index finger
Letter "i" at the tip of middle finger
1700's
People no longer believed deaf people lacked intelligence
First books in English about teaching deaf students were published
Teachers secretive about methods
Slowed down the progress of education of deaf people
Seventeenth Century
Successful teaching of deaf people in European countries
Spain, England, France, and Holland
Characteristics of teaching deaf children during this time
Education of deaf children usually arranged by family
Purpose was to teach to communicate with other people
Rarely taught lipreading
Media of instruction were speech, writing, fingerspelling, and signs
Teachers guarded their trade
Many teachers were priests or physicians
Deaf people
First deaf teachers
William Holder
John Wallis
Educators
Henry Baker
Kept teaching methods a secret
Charges high fees for deaf children's education
Opened first school for deaf in England
Abbe de I'Epee
Created signs according to spoken French grammar
Signing system was "signes methodiques" or methodical sign
Used to instruct the deaf students
Known as first hearing educator interested in learning from deaf people
Innovator in many ways
United deaf people by directing instruction toward a group
Championed the idea public education available to all children
Emphasized importance of using sign language for instruction
Aristotle
Deaf children
Children from elite society had more education opportunities
Bonet
Bonets alphabet
Used by Benedictine monks
This century
Notable in the history of deaf education
Formal, school-based education of deaf people
Began in England and France
Sign language was used consistently in a school
For the first time, deaf students had a deaf teacher
First known debate about sign language and speech began
School
The National Institute of Deaf-Mutes
First free school for the deaf in the world
Priests
Abbe Roch-Ambroise