part three
Milan, Italy
September 1880
hearing educators of the Deaf
164
five
51
6000
The Americans were representing more students than the other 159 participants combined
one
James Denison
Outlaw the use of sign language as a method for educating Deaf children
the oral method
stories adapting Aesop’s Fables & old literary masterpieces into simple stories
it ran out of funds and folded in a year
He published all the stories in book form
the first NAD president Robert P McGregor
Edwin Hodgson
Edmund Booth 1810 – 1905 In 1880 life expectancy was 40 years old