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Edward Gallaudet  

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  • Edward Miner Gallaudet was a scholar, businessman, teacher, principal, college president, and an advocate for the deaf and for deaf education. He was responsible for establishing the first institute for higher education for the deaf, and he advocated a combined approach (i.e., oral and manual) for teaching the deaf. [Source: Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent; Gallaudet, Edward (1837–1917)]

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