history query

[Stuart Thiessen]

There is also some discussion of early Deaf history in Dr. Paddy  
Ladd's book "Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood". His  
information seems to be earlier than most sources I've seen so far. As  
I recall, he mentioned that prior to the 1880's and oralism, deaf  
literacy was actually much higher quality than it is today. He  
attributes that largely to the fact that sign languages were much more  
respected and accepted than they have been after the advent of oralism  
and the banning of sign languages. That would make a great deal of  
sense to me.

Thanks,

Stuart

On Oct 30, 2008, at 20:05 , Kimberley Shaw wrote:

> Wasn't the school which Gallaudet himself founded, the American School
> for the Deaf (originally "Asylum" rather than School) in 1817? That
> was well before the founding of Gallaudet University in the 1860s! The
> American School is in Hartford Connecticut, and the method they used
> there was the "methodical sign" used in the late 1700s by Abbe de
> l'Epee in Paris - sort of a French-sign equivalent of Signed English.
> That is, de L'Epee took the sign language used by 18th-century
> Parisians, and then added his own invented signs to make it behave
> more like spoken French ... Harlan Lane's book "When the mind hears"
> has many, many details on this topic. I hope you can find and read a
> copy of it!
> Best,
> Kim from Boston
>
> On 10/30/08, Charles Butler <chazzer3332000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> The only uses of sign language on a regular basis in the English  
>> speaking
>> world prior to 1700 were the Benedictine Monastery schools.  However,
>> Gallaudet founded his school earlier than 1900 (the land grant for  
>> Gallaudet
>> was during Abraham Lincoln's administration, so 1860s.  In the  
>> 1840s and
>> prior, you certainly have monastery sign language being used.
>>
>> http://www.psu.edu/ur/archives/news/deaf2.html
>>
>>
>>
>> Alison Jameson <qetal at verizon.net> wrote: I am looking for  
>> information on
>> deaf education in the 1840s (or any time
>> before the 1900s), specifically the methods used in teaching students
>> who were profoundly deaf from birth to learn English (reading and
>> writing).  Thanks!
>>
>>
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