Transcript 1880's PPT 3

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
The combined method
Based on child’s needs
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