Thomas Gallaudet Biography

Thomas Gallaudet biography

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NAME: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
OCCUPATION: Educator
BIRTH DATE: December 10, 1787
DEATH DATE: September 10, 1851
EDUCATION: Yale University

PLACE OF BIRTH: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
PLACE OF DEATH: Hartford, Connecticut

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Thomas Gallaudet founded the first American school for the deaf. Gallaudet University is named in his honor.

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U.S. philanthropist Thomas Gallaudet founded the first American school for the deaf. After graduating from Yale College, he studied the sign method of communication in England and France. In 1816 he established the school for the deaf in Hartford, Connecticut, which for more than 50 years was the main American training center for instructors of the deaf. Gallaudet University is named in his honor.