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Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was born in Philadelphia on Dec. 10, 1787. His family moved to Hartford, Connecticut. “He entered Yale College as a sophomore in 1802 when he was about 16 and graduated the youngest in his class and with highest honors. He then tried his go at law, teaching, and business.”
As a pastor, Gallaudet encountered a deaf-mute child, Alice Cogswell, and they made an instant connection. Alice Cogswell’s father went to establish a special school for children like his daughter. Joining her father in the project to establish this kind of education in America, Gallaudet went to Europe in 1815 to learn about other schools and how they went about teaching their students. He studied methods used in London and Edinburgh. One teacher

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