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The Life and Times of T.H. Gallaudet
By Sayers, Edna Edith
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- 9781512600513 9781512601411
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- ForeEdge
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Reviewed on November 1, 2017 | social sciences
T.H. Gallaudet (1787–1851) is known as the father of deaf education in the United States, opening the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons in 1817. Inspired by the deaf daughter of a parishioner, Gallaudet traveled overseas to learn "symbolic instruction," in the hopes of bringing this form of education to America. He retur...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
