Thomas Braidwood
Thomas Braidwood (* 1715 ; † 1806 ) was a British educator who studied at the University of Edinburgh and founded the first school for the " deaf and dumb " in Great Britain in 1760 .
Life
He moved to London in 1783 and re-established the school there. Braidwood accepted “natural gestures” in class as long as the spoken language was not mastered, and used the two-hand finger alphabet , which is still in use in Britain to this day .
The Braidwood School was visited by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet in 1775 with the intention of studying the methods and using them in building a school in New England . Braidwood, however, did not reveal his methods to Gallaudet or anyone else. In 1812 a grandson of Braidwood, John Braidwood, founded a school for deaf children in Cobb, Virginia , USA , but it lasted only a short time.
literature
- Braidwood, Thomas . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 4 : Bishārīn - Calgary . London 1910, p. 391 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
- TW Braidwood: Thomas Braidwood and the Deaf-Mutes. In: Science . 11 (257) January 6, 1888, p. 12, PMID 17830994 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Braidwood, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1715 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1806 |