Educators who built named methods for teaching deaf and deaf-blind learners, including oral and auditory-verbal methods, the Tadoma method, sign language teaching and early deaf schools. A person belongs here when the cited article names a method, school or teaching practice for deaf or deaf-blind students as the person's work. It excludes child-centered reform pedagogues, who sit in their own group. Their methods shaped whether deaf students learned through speech, signs or both.
All Founders of Methods for Deaf and Deaf-Blind Education
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Helen Beebe (Wikipedia)
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Helen Louise Hulick Beebe (December 27, 1908, March 18, 1989) was an American educator and pioneer of auditory-verbal therapy.
Sophia Alcorn (Wikipedia)
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Sophia Kindrick Alcorn (August 3, 1883, November 28, 1967) was an educator who invented the Tadoma method of communication with people who are deaf and blind.
Anne Sullivan (Wikipedia)
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Anne Sullivan Macy (born as Johanna Mansfield Sullivan; April 14, 1866, October 20, 1936) was an American teacher best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller.
Emma Garrett (Wikipedia)
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Emma Garrett (c. 1846-1893) was an American educator and advocate of teaching speech to the deaf.
Georg Forchhammer (Wikipedia)
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Johannes Georg Forchhammer (22 May 1861-23 July 1938) was a Danish educator of the deaf, who was director of several deaf schools in Nyborg and Fredericia from 1891 to 1926.
Jacob Rodrigues Pereira (Wikipedia)
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He was the first teacher of deaf patients in France.
J. Schuyler Long (Wikipedia)
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He taught deaf children and authored the first standard picture dictionary of American Sign Language after becoming deaf himself as a child.
William van Praagh (Wikipedia)
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He pioneered the Oralist method for the education of the deaf in England.
Lou Fant (Wikipedia)
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Lou Fant (December 13, 1931, June 11, 2001) was a pioneering teacher, author and expert on American Sign Language (ASL).
Edith Mansford Fitzgerald (Wikipedia)
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Her method, which was known as the 'Fitzgerald Key,' was used to teach those with hearing disabilities in three-quarters of the schools in the United States.
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