Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was born on December 10, 1787 in Philadelphia. He was a pioneer in the teaching of American Sign Language and the rights of the deaf. He was a very intelligent student. He succeeded in graduating from Yale Collage in 1805. His interest in teaching and finding out more about deaf people, developed when he met a little girl. The first time he saw her, he walked up to her and asked her why she wasnt playing with all the other children. He could tell she was deaf, so he wanted to see if she could learn, or if she was smart. So he drew the word hat into the dirt, then pointed to his hat. Eventually…

hearing. Therefor, it is the most effective way to communicate with the deaf. Everything is made up of elements. Even the smallest bones in the human body, which are located in the ear and are vital for your ability to hear. People have been evolving form the beginning of time. Humans were lucky enough to evolve to have very flexible hands, which are our tools in anything we do everyday. Dr. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet brought Sign Language to the U.S and was very important in ASL’s history. Life…

to the United States they were finally able to communicate with the deaf. Before 1816, no one knew how to communicate with people who were deaf. Thomas Gallaudet tried helping a little deaf girl learn when her father decided to have Gallaudet go to Europe to learn techniques. Through his efforts of teaching deaf children, Thomas Gallaudet brought American sign language in the United States as well as creating a deaf college. Thomas Gallaudet went to theological Seminary at Andover in 1811 and…

His inspiration came from and deaf young woman named Alice Cogswell. Alice was deaf but she didn’t know any sign language or how to even communicate with other people. She wasn’t allowed to attend school with the other children and there were not schools for deaf children at the time. Alice inspired Hopkins to travel to Europe and learn how to communicate with deaf. All of his expenses to and from Europe were paid by Alice's’ father, Mason Cogswell. While in Europe he met people that were…

girl named Alice Cogswell caught scarlet fever in 1807. (“A Brief History of the American Asylum”). This illness caused her to become deaf. Her father, Mason F. Cogswell, became worried about how she would be educated. He inquired of the General Association of the Congregational Clergymen of Connecticut as to how many deaf individuals were in the state of Connecticut. Upon finding there were eighty-four such individuals in Connecticut and around four thousand in the entire country, an idea was…

Connecticut on August 31, 1805. When she was two years old, she got extremely sick with cerebral spinal meningitis, also known as “spotted fever”. It was because of this illness that she lost her hearing and eventually her speech as well. A man named Thomas Gallaudet moved next door to Alice and her family when she was nine years old. When he realized that she was not socializing with any of the other children, he…

However, most of these strategies are aimed for students who do not have a disability. The guided reading approach is recommended by the Laurent Clerc National Education Center from Gallaudet University (Schirmer & Schaffer, 2010). According to the Clerc Center there are three parts to the guided reading approach; (1) before reading which includes elicit prior knowledge,, build background knowledge, and introducing the book; (2) during reading includes a picture walk through the book, educator…

Thomas Gallaudet came to England and Paris so that he could bring Sign Language to America. A friend of Gallaudet’s had a daughter who was deaf and she was not getting a proper education and so Gallaudet went on a journey to find the very best communicators who taught it. When he arrived in Paris he met Sicard. Massieu, and Clerc where he studied under them and learned the art of sign language. Eventually he convinced Clerc to come back with him to America to open the first deaf school. Before…

In 1817 the most seasoned lasting school for the Deaf in the United States was established by Thomas Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc. After that numerous schools for Deaf started opening. These schools allowed students to be instructed while being with other Deaf individuals and adding to a feeling of group. This grew a greater amount of a personality. They had a place where they belonged. Likewise at these schools they found out about Deaf history and society. There are two schools for the Deaf in…

The Deaf President Now Movement Gallaudet University was named after Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, a gentlemen who became interested in deaf education in 1814, after a young child made a very significant impact on his life because the child was not getting the proper education. Gallaudet traveled to Paris in search for someone to help him find teaching methods for deaf children. Gallaudet met and convinced a French man, Laurent Clerc to come back to the United States with him. Gallaudet received…