How Did Alexander Graham Bell Help The Deaf

Alexander Graham Bell, we all know him for his revolutionary invention, the telephone. But, that wasn’t even his original goal. He actually made the discovery on accident. His main goal was to help the deaf speak. His two brothers Melville and Edward sadly died from tuberculosis at young ages. His mother was deaf, and that definitely influenced him to study deafness. Many of Bell’s ideas and goals were turned into reality. But the subject he was most passionate about was helping the deaf. And believe me, he definitely succeeded. In the book Making Connections, it stated that whenever he was asked his profession, he wouldn’t answer as a scientist or an inventor, he would say he was a teacher of the deaf. He had private lessons for