A Deaf Child Listened (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne E. Neimark
- First Published: 1983
- Time of Work: 1787–1851
- Setting: Hartford and New Haven, Connecticut; Kentucky; Ohio; Andover, Massachusetts; London; Edinburgh, Scotland; and Paris
- Principal Characters: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Alice Cogswell, Dr. Mason F. Cogswell, The Abbé Charles Michel de l’Épée, The Abbé Sicard, Laurent Clerc, Sophia Fowler, Daniel Wadsworth, Lewis Weld
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Education or educators, Communication, Schools or school life, Biography, Deafness or hearing-impaired persons, Sign language
- Locales: Kentucky, Ohio, Paris, France, London, England, Edinburgh, Scotland, Hartford, CT, Andover, MA, New Haven, CT
Form and Content
Anne E. Neimark’s A Deaf Child Listened: Thomas Gallaudet, Pioneer in American Education traces the life of Gallaudet from his education at Yale University to the establishment of schools for the deaf in the United States, the most prominent being the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut. The book is more than a simple biography of an educator; it traces emerging attitudes about hearing-impaired children and adults in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In the first two chapters, Neimark presents Gallaudet’s education...
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