Schools for the deaf

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The first school for the deaf was established in France during the 18th century, in 1771 by Charles-Michel de l'Épée.{{Cite web |last=Administrator |title=Deaf History - Europe - Deaf History, Europe |url=https://deafhistory.eu/index.php/deaf-history |access-date=2024-12-02 |website=deafhistory.eu |language=en-gb}} L'Épée was the leader in establishing sign language for the deaf and is notable as the "father" of deaf education. He founded the Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris. French Sign Language was developed and heavily influenced by L'Épée working with deaf people who were already using their own home signs and combining those signs with new signs, which, in this time period, became known as L'Épée sign language. This French sign language became a major foundation and influence on all international sign languages, especially on American Sign Language, which still retains much of the historical signs and signing grammatical structure that originated from France. The Cobbs School was founded in 1815 in Chesterfield County, Virginia.{{Cite journal |date=1815-01-01 |title=Cobbs School (Virginia) [First Known School for the Deaf in the United States] |url=https://ida.gallaudet.edu/schools/179/ |journal=Schools}} It was the first school for teaching Deaf and Mute people in the United States; however, it closed in 1816.{{Cite journal |date=1935 |title=Cobb's |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4244677?seq=1 |journal=The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography |volume=43 |issue=4 |pages=343–346 |issn=0042-6636}} The American School for the Deaf, in West Hartford, Connecticut, was the first school for the deaf established in the United States, in 1817, by Thomas Gallaudet, in collaboration with a deaf teacher, also from France, named Laurent Clerc with support from the well-known Hartford Cogswell family. Alice Cogswell was the very first student to attend this school in 1817.{{Cite web | title =Abbe de L'Eppe | date =12 November 2019 | publisher =Start ASL | url =https://www.startasl.com/abbe-de-lepee/ | format =weburl | access-date =June 6, 2021 }}{{Cite web | title =Deaf History & Cogswell Heritage House | publisher =Start ASL | url =https://www.asd-1817.org/about/history--cogswell-heritage-house | format =weburl | access-date =June 6, 2021 }} Thomas Gallaudet spent time in Paris observing French Sign Language and education at The National Institute for the Deaf.{{Cite web |title=Beginnings: The American School for the Deaf · Yale University Library Online Exhibitions |url=https://onlineexhibits.library.yale.edu/s/deaf-culture/page/asd |access-date=2024-12-02 |website=onlineexhibits.library.yale.edu}}

Higher Education

Gallaudet University is a private university in Washington D.C. It was founded by the youngest son of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Edward Miner Gallaudet and Amos Kendall. The school began as a grammar school and was the first school for Deaf higher education. Known as the National College for the Deaf and Dumb for the first year, the name was changed to the National Deaf-Mute College until 1894 when it was changed again to Gallaudet College. It was made Gallaudet University in 1986 in honor of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. Gallaudet University courses are made specifically for Deaf and Hard of Hearing students, making it the only institution of high education designed that way worldwide.{{Cite web |title=History - National Deaf Life Museum |url=https://gallaudet.edu/museum/history/ |access-date=2024-12-02 |website=Gallaudet University |language=en-US}}

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External links

[http://www.mbcnschool.org/ MBCN School for the Deaf]

Schools for the deaf

Higher Education

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