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2 unusual facts about Deaf education


Deaf education

All deaf students receive an Individualized Education Program (IEP) that outlines how the school will meet the student's individual needs.

In the United States, Canada, and the UK, educational professionals used the initialism IEP when referring to a student’s individualized education plan.


Centre for Deaf Studies, Dublin

Other work has centered on the application of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages to ISL teaching and assessment, the assessment of interpreters, deaf education, interpreters in educational contexts, interpreters in medical contexts, interpreters in mental health settings, etc.

Ear trumpet

Well known models of the period included the Townsend Trumpet (made by the deaf educator John Townshend), the Reynolds Trumpet (specially built for painter Joshua Reynolds) and the Daubeney Trumpet.

Samuel Heinicke

Samuel Heinicke (10 April 1727 – 30 April 1790), the originator in Germany of systematic education for the deaf, was born in Nautschutz, Germany.


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Deaf education in Kenya

Andrew Foster (1925-1987) was a Black deaf missionary who played an instrumental role in Deaf education throughout Africa.

Andrew Foster, a deaf Black missionary is was the first Black graduate of Gallaudet University arrived in Africa in 1957 and greatly expanded the state of deaf education throughout the continent by building thirty-one schools for the deaf, the first of which is located in Ghana.

Deaf history

1872: Alexander Graham Bell promotes deaf education and opens a school in 1872 for deaf people.

New Zealand Sign Language

Kelston School for the Deaf, opened 1958 (Auckland) and Kelston School for the Deaf Children was renamed in 1991 to Kelston Deaf Education Centre.