Teachers and priests who founded the first schools and institutes for deaf children in their countries, from the eighteenth and nineteenth century schools of Britain, Italy and Norway to the schools of Iran and China. A person belongs here when the cited article says the person founded a school, institute or institution for the deaf. It excludes the later presidents of deaf universities and the leaders of deaf organizations, who sit in their own group. Their schools made education available to children who had been left without any.
All Founders of Schools and Institutions for the Deaf
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Thomas Braidwood (Wikipedia)
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He was the founder of Britain's first school for the deaf.
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (Wikipedia)
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Along with Laurent Clerc and Mason Cogswell, he co-founded the first permanent institution for the education of the deaf in North America, and he became its first principal.
Antonio Provolo (Wikipedia)
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He was the founder of the Institute for the Deaf as well as two religious orders dedicated to the care of deaf-mute children.
Andreas Christian Møller (Wikipedia)
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Andreas Christian Møller (18 February 1796-24 December 1874) was a Norwegian lathe operator and teacher of the Deaf who founded the first school for the Deaf in Norway.
Jabbar Baghtcheban (Wikipedia)
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He is well known for establishing the first Iranian kindergarten and the first deaf school in Tabriz.
Annetta Thompson Mills (Wikipedia)
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She founded the first known formal school for the Deaf in China in 1887, the Chefoo School for the Deaf, which eventually became the Yantai Deaf Centre School.
Antonio Magarotto (Wikipedia)
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Antonio Magarotto (30 June 1891 in Pojana Maggiore, 10 May 1966 in Rome) was an Italian educator, founder of the Ente Nazionale Sordi (ENS) and rector of the Padua Deaf institute.
Andrew Foster educator (Wikipedia)
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He founded Christian Mission for the Deaf African in 1956 and set out for Accra, Ghana, where he established the first school for the deaf in West Africa.
Charles-Michel de l'Épée (Wikipedia)
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He founded the Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris, the first public school for the deaf, in 1760.
Mary Smith Garrett (Wikipedia)
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In 1885, she opened up her own private school to teach deaf children how to communicate effectively.
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