When did the first deaf school start?

Question

When did the first deaf school start?

Answer 1

I think it was around 1760.

The first Deaf school was definitly in France, the teachers were L'eppe and Sicard.

Galludet wasn't started until after Thomas Galludet met his neighbours daughter Alice Cogswell, who was deaf and had no language. He heard about a Deaf school in Europe and he then travelled to France, where he observed at the school, then brought back one of the teachers, Laurent Clerc, a student at the Deaf school in France. When they came back they opened Galludet back in USA.

Answer 2

As far as America is concerned, the first Deaf School started in 1817, in Hartford Connecticut. It was founded by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc.

Pedro Ponce De Leon,  1520-1584, a Catholic monk, is shown to have started “the world’s first school for the Deaf at the Monastery of San Salvador near Madrid, Spain where he taught till his death.” "He taught the Deaf mutes from birth to speak." Peter of Ponce first taught them "to write while showing them with his finger the object which was named by the written characters; then drilling them to repeat with the vocal organs the words which correspond to these characters." He was the inventor of this art and each pupil reasoned very well. He kept records of his methods and results but were destroyed in a fire. "In spite of his success and the favorable publicity of his work, at his death it seemed to die with him." http://members.aol.com/deafcultureinfo/d...

Answer 3

I believe it is 1797... or just some years prior to that.