Edna Edith Sayers has written the definitive biography of T. H. Gallaudet (1787-1851), celebrated today as the founder of deaf education in America. Sayers trac

During the early nineteenth century, schools for the deaf appeared in the United States for the first time. These schools were committed to the use of the sign

A biography of the founder of the first school for the deaf in the United States who, among other accomplishments, evolved a new sign language and wrote childre

Alice Cogswell was a bright and curious child and a quick learner. She also couldn't hear. And, unfortunately, in the early nineteenth century in America, there