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- Robert John Braidwood (29 July 1907 – 15 January 2003) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist, one of the founders of scientific archaeology, and a leader in the field of Near Eastern Prehistory.
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The history of deaf education in the United States began in the early 1800s when the Cobbs School of Virginia, an oral school, was established by William Bolling and John Braidwood, and the Connecticut Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, a manual school, was established by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc.
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JOHN BRAIDWOOD IN AMERICA1 John Braidwood, a grandson of the celebrated Thomas Braidwood of Edinburgh, came to America in 1812 with the object of founding in this country a school for the deaf similar to that which had been so successfully established in Great Britain by his grandfather in 1760. Unfortunately John Braidwood seems to have
Robert John Braidwood (29 July 1907 – 15 January 2003) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist, one of the founders of scientific archaeology, and a leader in the field of Near Eastern Prehistory.
When John Braidwood, Thomas's grandson, arrived in America in 1812 with the idea of starting a branch of the school, Cogswell tried to persuade him to come to Connecticut. Braidwood preferred Philadelphia or New York, but he was apparently a feckless and probably alcoholic dreamer, and his schemes came to nothing.
The first deaf school in the United States was short-lived: established in 1815 by Col. William Bolling of Goochland, Virginia, in nearby Cobbs, with John Braidwood (tutor of Bolling's two deaf children) as teacher, it closed in the fall of 1816.
In the same year, Thomas Braidwood founded the first British Academy for the deaf. 1776 Abbe de l’Eppee published “Instruction of deaf and dumb by means of methodical signs.” 1812 Braidwood School was founded in the United States by John Braidwood.
The first school for the education of the deaf in America in the year 1812. Col. William Bolling established a school for the deaf at his home, “COBBS.”. Near Petersburg, Virginia which was taught by John Braidwood of the famous Braidwood School in Edinburg, Scotland.
