The history of education for deaf people in the United States started in the early 1800s when the Cobb School was established in 1815 in New England (Crouch and Greenwald). Until that time, wealthy colonists sent their hearing impaired children to England for education. Although the Cobb School closed after less than two years, the American School for the Deaf was founded in 1817 in Hartford, Connecticut; it was started by a man who had trained at the school for the deaf in England and an assistant teacher who came back with him who was deaf himself.
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