Gallaudet, friend of the deaf

""Well-researched, quickly-moving biography of Thomas Gallaudet, nineteenth-century American advocate of education and a normal life for the deaf. An inspiring life and an accurate picture of both the times and the problems of the deaf.""@en
"A biography of Thomas H. Gallaudet, who believed the deaf deserved the availability of a high school and college education and set about making it a reality."
"A biography of Thomas H. Gallaudet, who believed the deaf deserved the availability of a high school and college education and set about making it a reality."@en
"Thomas Gallaudet was a young man of high ambitions but of weak health. After graduating from college he tried four professions but had to drop out of them. Then one day, while watching his younger brothers and sisters at play, he noticed a small girl looking on but taking no part. She was deaf. Thomas invented a game that helped her for the first time in her life to understand that things have names. From that day until the end of his life, Thomas Gallaudet devoted his energies to helping the deaf to cope and removing the barriers between the handicapped and the normal."@en