Education: Lesson Details
Objectives
1.) To learn how specialized schools for children with sensory disabilities were established in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century.
2.) To examine how religion and other factors shaped the lives of both people with disabilities and those interested in their welfare.
3.) To examine a critical period of reform in the American past.
Materials
Background Essays
- Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb
- Monsieur Laurent Clerc
- Religion In Nineteenth-Century America
- Samuel Gridley Howe, Romantic Reformer
Annotated & Abridged Documents
- Acts And Resolves Relating To The Institution For The Blind
- Annual Report Of The Trustees Of The New-England Institution For The Education Of The Blind, 1833
- Annual Report Of The Trustees Of The New-England Institution For The Education Of The Blind, 1834
- Education Of The Blind
- Eighth Report Of The Directors Of The American Asylum, At Hartford, For The Education And Instruction Of The Deaf And Dumb, Exhibited To The Asylum, May 15, 1824
- Mason Cogswell To John Braidwood, April 20, 1812
- Report Of The Committee Of The Connecticut Asylum For The Education And Instruction Of Deaf And Dumb Persons
- Sermon, On The Duties And Advantages Of Affording Instruction To The Deaf And Dumb
- Twentieth Annual Report Of The Trustees Of The Perkins Institution And Massachusetts Asylum For The Blind