Brief History Of Gallaudet University

Today, Gallaudet University is pretty well known around the United States, but it didn 't start out that way. It all began in 1856 when Amos Kendall became the guardian of some blind and deaf children who were not properly cared for. He set up a school and house for them, and then Edward Gallaudet took on from there as the school superintendent. The next year, Congress permitted the school to start. It was called The Columbia Institution for the Deaf and the Dumb and the Blind. Congress paid the tuition costs for students who lived in the District of Columbia. As the years progressed, many changes were made to the school, and many important things happened there. The name of the school changed a few times throughout

It all began in 1856 when Amos Kendall became the guardian of some blind and deaf children who were not properly cared for. He set up a school and house for them, and then Edward Gallaudet took on from there as the school superintendent. The next year, Congress permitted the school to start. It was called The Columbia Institution for the Deaf and the Dumb and the Blind. Congress paid the tuition costs for students who lived in the District of Columbia. As the years progressed, many changes were made to the school, and many important things happened there. The name of the school changed a few times throughout the history of Gallaudet University. At first it was named The Columbia Institution for the Deaf and the Dumb and the Blind, then it became Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, because Thomas Gallaudet noticed that the number of blind students wasn 't growing. So he decided to send the blind students to a blind school in Baltimore, and only allow deaf and mute students in his school. Then the name was changed to National Deaf-Mute College, then it was renamed Gallaudet College, and finally it was called