Education During The Antebellum Era
There are many things that we as Americans take for granted, access to clean water, nutritious food, but more importantly our sight and ability to hear. Some aren’t so lucky and have to live their lives without being able to see or hear the world around them. Thankfully, today there is technology and ways to help those children and adults. However, during the 1800s, children weren’t so lucky until the Age Of Reform began. During the Antebellum period, many more schools were added around the country, changing education as we know it. These new schools included education opportunities for the deaf, blind and disabled, that made life much easier for them. The addition of schools for students with disabilities in the antebellum era gave students
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It was common for families with deaf or blind children to know nothing of the issue and feel lost when trying to bond, communicate and love their child (Sutton-Spence). It is the natural instinct for a parent and child to love and bond, but that becomes damaged when the duo cannot communicate. The addition of schools for the deaf and blind brought a new hope for families, who now could communicate with their children through sign language or the early type of Braille, which was a raised lettering system created by Samuel Howe (McGuire 2). This new way of communicating created many new opportunities for these children and their families. They had the possibility of getting jobs and providing for their families. Some even had the hope of starting their own families in the future (Sutton-Spence). The new schools for the deaf and blind provided so many new chances for these children to grow, develop and feel normal. A current day study revealed that people who are hearing impaired don’t identify themselves, rather, they see themselves as people who see the world visually and use sign language (Sutton-Spence). This can also be assumed about the deaf in the 1800s. Originally there hadn’t been schools for them or ways from them to learn. But the new schools gave them the ability to go to school and fit in with others like them, making them feel apart of the group. The new schools for the deaf, blind and mentally disabled, helped children to feel apart of society and apart of the
It was common for families with deaf or blind children to know nothing of the issue and feel lost when trying to bond, communicate and love their child (Sutton-Spence). It is the natural instinct for a parent and child to love and bond, but that becomes damaged when the duo cannot communicate. The addition of schools for the deaf and blind brought a new hope for families, who now could communicate with their children through sign language or the early type of Braille, which was a raised lettering system created by Samuel Howe (McGuire 2). This new way of communicating created many new opportunities for these children and their families. They had the possibility of getting jobs and providing for their families. Some even had the hope of starting their own families in the future (Sutton-Spence). The new schools for the deaf and blind provided so many new chances for these children to grow, develop and feel normal. A current day study revealed that people who are hearing impaired don’t identify themselves, rather, they see themselves as people who see the world visually and use sign language (Sutton-Spence). This can also be assumed about the deaf in the 1800s. Originally there hadn’t been schools for them or ways from them to learn. But the new schools gave them the ability to go to school and fit in with others like them, making them feel apart of the group. The new schools for the deaf, blind and mentally disabled, helped children to feel apart of society and apart of the