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The Colorado Institute For The Education Of Mutes: Case Study
Sara Alhababi

The Colorado Institute for the Education of Mutes
"The Colorado Institute for the Education of Mutes" was founded by Jonathan R. Kennedy in 1874. Jonathan Kennedy had previously served as the steward of the Kansas School for the Deaf in Olathe. Kennedy opened the school on April 8, 1874. It started with only seven students; three of them were Kennedy own children and added six more during the course of that year. Also, its first location was a house in downtown Colorado Springs. The house was rented for $50/month. The student population rapidly outgrew the space available and with a donation of ten acres by the founder of the city of Colorado Springs, General William Palmer, the school moved to its current campus in 1876.

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