Visualizing Networks of Deaf Education

This presentation will explore how network visualization may be used to reveal the paths and processes of educators in the transmission of language and culture at residential deaf schools in the nineteenth century. Historians often cite the significance of the American School for the Deaf, the first permanent residential educational institution for deaf children in the United States, in training deaf educators for their roles at a growing number of deaf schools. However, the connections between and among these institutions has not been explored. This presentation will discuss and trace the movement of instructors and the transmission of educational practices and language forms between these spaces.