Gallaudet University inatchulidwa kuti ndi munthu womvetsera amene anabweretsa maphunziro kwa ana ogontha ku America. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787-1851), yemwe adadwaladwala, adapeza dziko la ogontha pamene anakumana ndi Alice Cogswell wamng'ono. Alice anali mwana wosamva wopanda chinenero.
Mwa kuyanjana ndi Alice, iye adapeza kuphunzitsa.
Ali paulendo wopita ku Ulaya, anakumana ndi kubwezeretsa aphunzitsi ake ogontha, aphunzitsi ogontha, kuti amuthandize kuyambitsa American School of the Deaf ku Connecticut. Anayamba kukonda ndi kukwatira mmodzi mwa ophunzira ake, Sophia Fowler, kuyamba banja lalikulu la a CODA ( ana a anthu osamva ). Mmodzi mwa ana ake a CODA, Edward Miner Gallaudet, anakulira kukhala purezidenti woyamba wa yunivesite ya Gallaudet (kenako dzina lake silimodzi). Moyo wa Thomas Gallaudet unali wamfupi, koma anasiya cholowa cha anthu ogontha ophunzira.
Zolemba za Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Zolemba za Thomas Gallaudet zilipo pa intaneti ndi kusindikizidwa.
- Bambo, Mwana, A Yunivesite: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - Mbiriyi yakale kwambiri, yolembedwera kwa owerengera achinyamata, ndi okondweretsa kuwerengera komanso kujambula bwino. Zalembedwa ndi mlembi yemwe walemba kawirikawiri kafukufuku wachinyamata wosamva, World Around You.
- Library ya Congress imakhalanso ndi nkhani yosungidwa, "Moyo ndi Ntchito za Thomas H. Gallaudet" yomwe inalembedwa ku The North American Review, Voliyumu 87, Issue 181, October 1858. Malemba ndi mafilimu amawoneka pa webusaiti ya Library of Congress .
- Moyo wa Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - Mwana wa Gallaudet Edward analemba bukuli ponena za abambo ake. Simunasindikizidwe, imapezeka pa intaneti kuchokera ku DisabilityMuseum.org.
Mabuku angapo asindikizidwa za Thomas Gallaudet.
- Dziko Lodziwa: Nkhani yokhudza Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - Buku la ana owonetsedwa bwino.
- Mwana Wopusa Amamvetsera: Thomas Gallaudet, Mpainiya mu Maphunziro a America , ndi Anne Neimark. Bukhu ili silisindikizidwe, koma likupezeka kudzera ogulitsa mabuku ogwiritsidwa ntchito.