thomas hopkins gallaudet was the deaf person who traveled to america in 1817 to help set up a school for the deaf 1.1.
thomas hopkins gallaudet was the deaf person who traveled to america in 1817 to help set up a school for the deaf 1.1.
who was the deaf person who traveled to america in 1817 to help set up a school for the deaf 1.1?
thomas hopkins gallaudet
bullet::::- teresa de cartagena, spanish conversa nun and mystic author of the 15th century who became deaf in later life. the first mystic author in spanish.









































bullet::::- laurent clerc (1785–1869), student and teacher (1798–1816) at the paris deaf school of the abbé de l'épée; accompanied thomas gallaudet to america to teach deaf children. co-founded the first deaf school in north america in 1817 in hartford, connecticut.









































bullet::::- alice cogswell, first deaf student at american school for the deaf









































bullet::::- pierre desloges (1742–?), french deaf writer and bookbinder, first known deaf person to publish a book
list of deaf people
there are deaf churches (where sign language is the main language), deaf synagogues, deaf jewish community centers, and the hebrew seminary of the deaf in illinois. in 2011 the conservative movement unanimously passed the rabbinic responsa, "the status of the heresh [one who is deaf] and of sign language," by the committee on jewish law and standards (cjls). this responsa declared that, among other things, "the committee on jewish law and standards rules that the deaf who communicate via sign language and do not speak are no longer to be considered mentally incapacitated. jews who are deaf are responsible for observing mitzvot. our communities, synagogues, schools, and camps must strive to be welcoming and accessible, and inclusive. sign language may be used in matters of personal status and may be used in rituals. a deaf person called to the torah who does not speak may recite the berakhot via sign language. a deaf person may serve as a shaliah tzibbur in sign language in a minyan whose medium of communication is sign language."
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