单词 | rogers, harriet burbank |
释义 | Rogers, Harriet BurbankRogers, Harriet Burbank(1834–1919) educator; born in North Billerica, Mass. A Massachusetts teacher, she adopted the European oral method in teaching a deaf pupil, Fanny Cushing, in 1863. Her success gained her the support of Gardiner Hubbard (the Massachusetts businessman whose own deaf daughter would later marry Alexander Graham Bell) and he helped her set up a school for the deaf (1866) in Chelmsford, Mass. When John Clarke of Northampton, Mass., helped endow a new school in that city, Rogers moved there to become the first director at the Clarke School for the Deaf (1867–86). She made this the first U.S. institution to teach the deaf by articulation and lip reading rather than by signing. Her approach was opposed by many but she and her teachers gradually won many over. Poor health forced her to leave Northampton in 1884 and she spent the years after residing in her hometown where she ran a kindergarten for a while. |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含2567994条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。