to sign as a child.
In the 1866–1867 academic year, the building for the primary school was extended and sickness was thereby reduced. A mathematics professor was hired for the first time. More money was needed to accommodate additional students expected to swell the ranks of the school.
Gallaudet gave a lengthy account of his travels to Europe in 1867 and was very critical of the extent to which speech is taught to deaf children in European schools for the deaf. Nevertheless, he recommended that a limited amount of speech training be afforded to deaf students in America to those who show they can benefit. The locations he visited included: Dublin, Ireland; Geneva, Switzerland; Vienna, Austria; Paris, France; Prague, Bohemia; (Prague, Czech Republic); Berlin, Prussia (Berlin, Germany); London, England; Edinburgh, Scotland; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Stockholm, Sweden; Copenhagen, Denmark; and many other cities in Europe.
The biggest educational conference in the then-history of deaf education was held during …
