Different Views for Deaf Education

Jonathan Whipple successfully taught lip-reading and speech to his deaf son Enoch and paved the way for oral schools in Connecticut. Inspired by this success, his grandson, Zerah C. Whipple, developed his own method of instruction: Whipple's Natural Alphabet.

By using symbols to represent various movements of the mouth as it produces specific sounds, Whipple believed he could reproduce his grandfather’s success with other deaf individuals and opened his school in this farm house in 1869. His efforts were successful enough that the school outgrew this location and moved to Mystic.

Credits and Sources:

Photos courtesy of:

Keenan; Quakertown Online; Quakertown Online; Quakertown Online.