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Deaf History 1700 - 1800. Joshua Windes Shaiquiar Smith. 1750. 25% of the residents at Martha’s Vineyard were deaf. . 1755 . Samuel Heinicke established the first oral school for the deaf in Germany. 1760. Charles Michel de l’Epee founded the first free school for the deaf in France.
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Deaf History 1700 - 1800 Joshua Windes Shaiquiar Smith
1750 • 25% of the residents at Martha’s Vineyard were deaf.
1755 • Samuel Heinicke established the first oral school for the deaf in Germany
1760 • Charles Michel de l’Epee founded the first free school for the deaf in France
1760 • French sign was established.
1776 • Abbe de l’Epee published “Instruction of deaf and dumb by means of methodical signs”
1778 • Samuel Heinicke, “Father of the German Method” (pure oralism) established a deaf school in Leipzig.
1780 Charles Green of Boston became one of the earliest deaf Americans to receive formal education overseas in Scotland.
1782 • R.A. Sicard opened a school for the deaf at Bordeaux: wrote Theorie Des Signes (dictionary of signs).
1784 • Abba Silvestri opened first school for the deaf in Rome, Italy
1789 • Abbe de l’Epeedied.