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Louis Laurent Marie Clerc was a French teacher called "The Apostle of the Deaf in America" and was regarded as the most renowned deaf person in American Deaf History. He was taught by AbbéSicard and deaf educator Jean Massieu,at the Institution Nationale des Sourds-Muets in Paris. With Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet,he co-founded the first school for the deaf in North America,the Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb,on April 15,1817,in the old Bennet's City Hotel,Hartford,Connecticut. The school was subsequently renamed the American School for the Deaf and in 1821 moved to 139 Main Street,West Hartford. The school remains the oldest existing school for the deaf in North America.
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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.
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
- ↑ "President Emeritus Robert R. Davila to receive honorary degree from California State University, Fresno" by Robert Weinstock, May 08, 2024, News & Events, Gallaudet.edu.
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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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