User:Purplewowies/Changes to History of deaf education in the United States

Article:

Deaf History Reader
Whole book with cite encyclopedia and cite book used, respectively.

Chapter refs
Chapter 2:

Words Made Flesh
Whole book.

Journey into the Deaf-World
Full book.

Inside Deaf Culture
Full book.

Never the Twain Shall Meet
Full book.

Train Go Sorry
To cite

Deaf Like Me
SUPER maybe

That book about the school I was reading about if I ever feel ethically ready to request Questia access again
SO wikibonked

Book(s) for Deaf Ed History and Speech Development classes that might be of some use
Deaf Ed History: Journey into Deaf World↑ Speech Development: Children with Hearing Loss: Developing Listening and Talking. Full book. Only good for more current issues.

When I find out what the books are/receive them, I need to list them here.

Early (1800s to 1860s)
1815 - Bollings/Braidwoods (oralism)

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, many wealthy colonists sent their deaf children to Europe to receive schooling. The best known deaf educational institution was the Braidwood Academy in Edinburgh, Scotland, established in 1760 by Thomas Braidwood as the "Academy for the Deaf and Dumb." The Braidwood Academy was an expensive private school that was very secretive about its methods, only sharing their methodology with a few select people.

The Bolling family, who lived in Virginia, were the most prominent colonists to send their deaf children to the Braidwood Academy. Thomas Bolling and his wife Elizabeth Gay (who was also his first cousin) had three deaf children, John, Mary, and Thomas Jr., as well as at least two hearing children. John was the first of the three children to go to the Braidwood Academy in 1771, with Mary and Thomas Jr. arriving later. The three Bolling children arrived back in the United States in 1783; however, they became ill shortly after arriving home, and John died on October 11, 1783. Because of this, it cannot be determined how effective the ten years of oral instruction he received were. Mary and Thomas Jr. lived for at least another four decades, and comments about Thomas Jr. noted that he was a "miracle of accomplishments."

The next generation of hearing Bollings had deaf children, and they wanted their children to be educated in the United States. William, the last child of Thomas and Elizabeth, married his first cousin Mary, who bore five children, two of whom were deaf. The couple's first deaf child, William Albert, drove his father's desire to create a school for the deaf in America. William Bolling met John Braidwood, a descendant of Thomas Braidwood, after he arrived in America in 1812. Bolling invited Braidwood to stay in his home as Braidwood sorted out a more permanent living arrangement. Braidwood discussed with Bolling his desire to open a school similar to the Braidwood Academy in America. After many setbacks, the Cobbs School was established in 1815. It closed about a year and a half later, in the fall of 1816, when Braidwood's personal problems caused him to leave the school and Bolling could no longer financially maintain it.