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Pages in category "Special schools in Pennsylvania" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Scranton School for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing ...
The current campus occupies buildings in the Old Germantown Academy. The Pennsylvania School for the Deaf is the third-oldest school of its kind in the United States.Its founder, David G. Seixas (1788–1864), was a Philadelphia crockery maker-dealer who became concerned with the plight of impoverished deaf children who he observed on the city's streets. [1]
The Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf (WPSD) is a school for deaf and hard of hearing children in Edgewood, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1869. [2] [3] The school is listed as a Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark. The administrative building was built in 1903 by architects Alden & Harlow. [4]
Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf: 1869: Edgewood: Pennsylvania: ... Agostino Vicini's Special School; ... Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children;
Clarke School for the Deaf was founded in 1867 in Northampton, Massachusetts, as the first permanent oral school for the deaf in the United States. In the first quarter of 2010, Clarke announced the new name from Clarke School for the Deaf to Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech.
Formerly administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, the Scranton State School for the Deaf was closed at the end of the 2008–2009 school year. [2] All rights to administer the school were transferred to the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. [3]
He had previously been employed as the superintendent of the New York State School for the Blind. [6] In December 1907, the school's forty-member choir performed at the dedication of Philadelphia's Grace Baptist Temple. [7] The school was renamed the Overbrook School for the Blind in 1946, expanding and growing over the next decades.
Washington School for the Deaf; West Tennessee School for the Deaf; West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind; Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf; Jerry L. White Center; Wisconsin School for the Deaf; Wyoming School for the Deaf