I-Gallaudet University yabizwa yindoda yokuzwa eyayilethe imfundo kubantwana abayizithulu eMelika. UThomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787-1851), owahlukunyezwa impilo yakhe yonke, wathola izwe lezizithulu lapho ehlangana no-Alice Cogswell omncane. U-Alice wayengumntwana oyisithulu ongenalo ulimi.
Ngokuxhumana no-Alice, wathola ukufundisa.
Lapho ehamba eYurophu, wahlangana futhi wabuyisela lo mfana osemncane, uLister Clerc, uthisha oyisithulu, ukuze amsize aqale iSikole saseMelika sezithulu eConnecticut. Wathandana futhi washada nomunye wabafundi bakhe, uSophia Fowler, eqala umndeni omkhulu we-CODA ( izingane zabantu abadala abayizithulu ). Omunye wamadodana akhe e-CODA, u-Edward Miner Gallaudet, wakhula waba umongameli wokuqala we- University of Gallaudet (ngaleso sikhathi ngaphansi kwegama elihlukile). Ukuphila kukaThomas Gallaudet kwakumfushane, kodwa washiya ifa labantu abayizithulu abafundele.
Ama-biographies kaThomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Ama-biographies kaThomas Gallaudet ayatholakala kokubili ku-intanethi futhi ashicilelwe.
- Ubaba, iNdodana, iYunivesithi: UThomas Hopkins Gallaudet - Le biography ende, ebhalelwe abafundi abasebasha, imnandi ukufunda nokufanekisa kahle. Kubhaliwe umlobi obhale njalo encwadini yentsha eyisithulu, World Around You.
- I-Library of Congress ine-athikili engobo yomlando, "Ukuphila Nezikhwama zikaThomas H. Gallaudet" eyanyatheliswa kuyi-North American Review, uMqulu 87, Issue 181, ngo-Okthoba 1858. Umbhalo oqoshiwe kanye nehluzo zitholakala kuwebhusayithi ye-Library of Congress .
- Ukuphila kukaThomas Hopkins Gallaudet - indodana kaGallaudet u-Edward wabhala le ncwadi ngoyise. Akusekho ukuphrinta, itholakala ku-inthanethi kusuka ku-DisabilityMuseum.org.
Izincwadi ezincane zishicilelwe mayelana noTomas Gallaudet.
- Izwe Lokukwazi: Indaba mayelana noThomas Hopkins Gallaudet - Incwadi yabantwana efanekiselwayo.
- Ingane Engenalutho Ezwakalayo : UThomas Gallaudet, Uphayona eMfundweni yaseMelika , ngu-Anne Neimark. Leli bhuku aliphrintiwe, kodwa litholakala ngokusebenzisa abathengisi bezincwadi ezisetshenzisiwe.