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

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

Throughout the last two centuries, a controversial question has plagued the field of education of the deaf: should sign language be used to communicate with and

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