history query

[Charles Butler]

Yes, sign language has been used since time
immemorial, she was asking educational settings.

The Benedictine sign manual is rather enlightening.

Charles

--- Ingvild Roald <iroald at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Surely you are talking of the educational system
> only, not the general use of sign language? It was
> used, as we know, both in Kent and on Martha's
> Vineyard before that
> 
> Ingvild 
> 
> 
> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:26:06 -0700
> From: chazzer3332000 at yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: [sw-l] history query
> To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> 
> 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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