Table of Contents
Historical Perspective on the Education of Deaf Children in Western Cultures
The Needs of Minorities
The Needs of Minorities
Prehistoric Considerations
Attitudes Toward the Disabled
Attitudes Toward the Disabled
First Laws Protecting Disabled
Aristotle's Questionable Influence
Miracle Cures and Roman Laws
The “Dark Ages” 700-1500 A.D.
Rudolphus Agricola, 1443-1485
Girolamo Cardano, 1501-1576
Pedro Ponce de Leon, 1520-1584
World’s First School for the Deaf
Juan Pablo Bonet, 1579-1620
Other Notables of the 17th & 18th Centuries
Other Notables of the 17th & 18th Centuries
Abbe Charles de l’Epee, 1712-1789
Samuel Heinicke, 1729-1790
Thomas Braidwood, 1715-1806
Abbe Roch Sicard, 1742-1822
Beginning of American Education
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, 1787-1851
Laurent Clerc
Alice Cogswell
First “Home” of Connecticut Asylum
The American Asylum, 1820
Horace Mann
Edward M. Gallaudet, 1837-1917
Origin of Oral Education
Harriet Burbank Rogers
John Clarke, Esq.
Sophia Smith, 1796-1870
Caroline A. Yale, 1848-1934
Alexander Melville Bell
Alexander Graham Bell, 1847-1922
Alice Worcester, 1850-1884
Milan Conference of 1880
Auralism in America
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Author: Dr. Alan Marvelli, Smith College
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