Received from: Dr. Karen Dilka Eastern Kentucky university

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Received from Dr. Karen DilkaEastern Kentucky
university

• Date submitted to deafed.net July 7, 2009
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Thomas Gallaudet

• By Lindsey Brown

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Growing up as thomas

• Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
• born in Philadelphia on December. 10, 1787.
• Thomas was a good student and impressed people
  with his intellect.
• attended Yale University at the age of fourth
  teen and graduated first among his class.
• In 1812, he attended Andover Theological Seminary
  and graduated in 1814.

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Meeting Alice

• Alice Cogswell, the deaf daughter of his
  neighbors, Dr. Mason Cogswell and his wife Mary
• He taught her words by writing them with a stick
  in the dirt.
• Gallaudet realized that there was no where to
  educate Alice, but that she was cognitively
  intact.
• He traveled to Europe to study methods for
  teaching deaf students

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Searching for knowledge

• Thomas wanted to gain knowledge from the
  Braidwood family in Edinburgh, Scotland.
• The Braidwoods were not interested in sharing
  their information about teaching the deaf.
• He was also not satisfied that the oral method
  produced desirable results.

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While in Europe..

• While in Great Britain he met, Laurent Clerc
• Gallaudet followed to Paris to study the school's
  method of teaching the deaf using manual
  communication. He loved it!
• After learning, he persuaded Laurent Clerc to
  return with him to the United States.

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American School for the deaf

• The two men toured New England and successfully
  raised private and public funds to found a school
  for deaf students in Hartford, which later became
  known as the American School for the Deaf.
• Young Alice was one of the first seven students
  in the United States.

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Thomas books

• The Childs Book on Repentance. Boston The
  American Tract Society, 1832.
• The Childs Book of the Soul. Boston The
  American Tract Society, 1836.
• The Childs Book of the Fall of Man. Boston The
  American Tract Society, 1841.

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references

• http//www.deafis.org/history/who/gallaudet.php
• Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. (2009, May 22). In
  Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved
  1640, May 22, 2009, from http//en.wikipedia.org/
  w/index.php?titleThomas_Hopkins_Gallaudetoldid2
  91642715
• Reagan, Timothy. Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins.
  Feb. 2000. American National Biography. 16 Nov.
  2006. lthttp//www.anb.org/articles/09/09-00287.htm
  lgt.
• Booth, Edwin. Booth's reminiscences of
  Gallaudet, American Annals of the Deaf, Volume
  26, Number 3, July 1881, pages 200-202,
  http//library.gallaudet.edu/pdf/BoothsThomasR.pdf
  
• "Tribute to Gallaudet--A Discourse in
  Commemoration of the Life, Character and
  Services, of the Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet,
  LL.D.--Delivered Before the Citizens of Hartford,
  Jan. 7th, 1852. With an Appendix, Containing
  History of Deaf-Mute Instruction and
  Institutions, and other Documents." By Henry
  Barnard, 1852. (Download book http//www.saveourd
  eafschools.org/tribute_to_gallaudet.pdf)