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Title:
Deaf education pioneer was largely self-taught
Author:
Carol W. Kimball
Subjects:
disabilities. physical
deaf, teaching the
lip reading
sign language
Object ID:
Kim06-074a
Object Name:
Scrapbook
Category:
8: Communication Artifact
Subcategory:
Documentary Artifact
Publisher:
The Day
Publication Place:
New London, CT
Pubication Date:
12/05/96
Collection:
Carol W. Kimball
Summary:
Jonathan Whipple began teaching his deaf son, Enoch, to speak, read, and write at home using a method he devised. The process was praised by Horace Mann and Alexander Graham Bell. Later, the school became known as the Mystic Oral School.
People:
Whipple, Jonathan
Whipple, Enoch (b. 1825)
Whipple, Zerah (d. 1879)
Burrows, Silas E.
Bell, Alexander Graham
Mann, Horace
Downing, William S.
McGuigan, Clara M. H. (Dr.)
Search Terms:
Mystic Educational Center
Whipple Home School for the Deaf (f. 1869)
Mystic Oral School