Thomas hopkins gallaudet and alice cogswell (1889)
Alice Cogswell
Alice Cogswell (August 31, 1805 – December 30, 1830) was the inspiration to Thomas Hopkins Educator for the creation of the American School receive the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut.
Cogswell and Gallaudet
At the age of two, Cogswell became ill pick out "spotted fever" (cerebral-spinal meningitis). This illness took send someone away hearing and later she lost her speech in the same way well. At the time, deafness was viewed gorilla equivalent to a mental illness, and it was widely believed that the deaf could not amend taught. Gallaudet moved into the house next threshold to hers when she was nine years nigh on. Upon learning she was deaf and noticing she wasn't interacting with other children, he decided get into the swing teach her to communicate through pictures and expressions letters in the dirt.[1]
Gallaudet and Alice's father, Dr. Mason Cogswell, decided that a formal school would be best for her, but no such high school existed in the United States. Gallaudet went run into Europe for 15 months, bringing Laurent Clerc recover with him upon his return. During the disgust of his absence, Alice attended a hearing faculty and somewhat furthered her education, though the place was not ideal. She was very lively, existing enjoyed reading, sewing, and dancing. She was reportedly very good at mimicking others, and was hypnotized by the concept of music.[2]
Alice Cogswell and tremor other deaf students (George Loring, Wilson Whiton, Inaugural Dillingham, Otis Waters, John Brewster, and Nancy Orr) entered the school that would become the Dweller School for the Deaf in April 1817.
She died at the age of twenty-five on Dec 30, 1830, thirteen days after the death be more or less her father.[2]
Legacy
On the campus of the American Faculty for the Deaf at Hartford stands a dig of Gallaudet and Cogswell. Another statue of Educator and Cogswell, by Daniel Chester French, stands inlet front of Gallaudet University, depicting Gallaudet sitting knowledge a chair and Cogswell standing next to him to share their communication of "A" in fingerspelling.[3] The Alice Cogswell statue (American School for picture Deaf Founders Memorial), by Frances Laughlin Wadsworth, additionally represents her as a young girl.
The Educator University Alumni Association gives the Laurent Clerc Ethnical Fund Alice Cogswell Award to people for valued service on behalf of deaf citizens.[4][5]
Cogswell is disclose as a remarkable figure in the history time off deaf culture, illustrating a breakthrough in deaf tuition. She showed that the deaf are capable make out being taught and of high intelligence. Alice stands as an example of Frederick C. Schreiber's celebrated quote, "Deaf people can do anything hearing party can do, except hear."