SuitabookCommunication and access
Alice cannot hear or speak, and Gallaudet teaches her letters, words and reading before studying other approaches to teaching deaf children.
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Emily Arnold McCully - Author
This is an illustrated historical account of Alice Cogswell, Thomas Gallaudet and the emergence of American Sign Language, combining biography, education, institutional history and Alice’s letters.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is an illustrated historical account of Alice Cogswell, Thomas Gallaudet and the emergence of American Sign Language, combining biography, education, institutional history and Alice’s letters.
Alice cannot hear or speak, and Gallaudet teaches her letters, words and reading before studying other approaches to teaching deaf children.
Gallaudet travels to Europe, brings Laurent Clerc to Connecticut, and together they found what is now the American School for the Deaf.
Excerpts from Alice’s letters to Gallaudet portray her navigating language and the distance between them.
Pay particular attention to grief and loss.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: another book-specific source is still needed; some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.