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Edward Miner Gallaudet,was the first president of Gallaudet University in Washington,D.C. from 1864 to 1910.
R. Orin Cornett was an American physicist,university professor and administrator,and the inventor of a literacy system for the deaf,known as Cued Speech.
The National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) is the first and largest technological college in the world for students who are deaf or hard of hearing. As one of nine colleges within the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester,New York,NTID provides academic programs,access,ASL in-class interpreters and support services—including on-site audiological,speech-language,and cochlear implant support. As of fall quarter 2012,NTID encompasses just under 10% of RIT's enrollment,1259 students. Roughly 775 deaf and hard of hearing students are cross-registered into another RIT college's program with support from NTID.
Irving King Jordan is an American educator who became the first deaf president of Gallaudet University in 1988 after the Deaf President Now protest. Gallaudet is the world's only university with all programs and services designed specifically for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
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The history of deaf education in the United States began in the early 1800s when the Cobbs School of Virginia,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. When the Cobbs School closed in 1816,the manual method,which used American Sign Language,became commonplace in deaf schools for most of the remainder of the century. In the late 1800s,schools began to use the oral method,which only allowed the use of speech,as opposed to the manual method previously in place. Students caught using sign language in oral programs were often punished. The oral method was used for many years until sign language instruction gradually began to come back into deaf education.
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Beth S. Benedict is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Gallaudet University,advocate for the deaf,and a mentor for families with deaf children. Her research focuses on early intervention,early language acquisition,and family involvement. Benedict is also an advocate for the use of bilingualism in education of the deaf - incorporating the value of American Sign Language in deaf children. Benedict advocates for deaf-hearing partnerships,avoiding audism,the importance of bilingual education,deaf culture and the use of sign language while also working as a family mentor for families with deaf children. Recently,she was a keynote speaker for an International Deaf Studies conference and the featured speaker for the deaf education summit. Benedict takes what she researches about deafness and education and shares it broadly by way of talks and application - for example,she has helped the Georgia School for the Deaf work on developing bilingual education in their programs. In 2015 Benedict was the featured speaker at the Deaf education summit in Louisiana - a conference that brought together practitioners,educators,and parents to discuss local issues surrounding education of deaf children.
Kendall Demonstration Elementary School (KDES) is a private day school serving deaf and hard of hearing students from birth through grade 8 on the campus of Gallaudet University in the Trinidad neighborhood of Washington,D.C. Alongside Model Secondary School for the Deaf,it is a federally funded,tuition-free demonstration school administered by the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center at Gallaudet University.
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- ↑ No-Confidence Vote for Gallaudet Leader
- ↑ NPR: Fernandes Vows to Fight for Presidency of Gallaudet
- ↑ Lang, Harry G., Cohen, Oscar P. and Joseph E. Fischgrund. 2007. Moments of Truth: Robert R. Davila, the Story of a Deaf Leader. Rochester, NY: RIT Press, p. 17
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- ↑ "Davila fills Department of Education post Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine ," Gallaudet Today, Fall 1989, pp. 35-36.
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