Sarah Fuller lived at 122 Concord Street, Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts.
Born in Weston, Massachusetts on February 15, 1836, she was the daughter of Hervey and Celynda (Fiske) Fuller. She was educated in the public schools of Weston and Newton and at the Allan English and Classical School in West Newton, Massachusetts.
After graduating in 1855, she taught in Newton and Boston. In 1869, she trained at the Clarke School for the Deaf under Harriet B. Rogers. At the behest of Rev. Dexter S. King, on November 10, 1869, she organized a public day school for deaf children in Boston called the Boston School for Deaf Mutes (known today as the Horace Mann School for the Deaf). She was Principal of the school from November 10, 1869 until her retirement in June, 1910.
In 1871, Sarah Fuller invited Alexander Graham Bell to teach at the Boston School for Deaf Mutes. He trained the school staff in the skill of teaching deaf children how to speak. Sarah became an advocate of this practice, as well as the promotion of education for deaf children starting at the earliest age possible. They continued a long partnership in the interests of teaching deaf children to speak.
In 1888, she published An Illustrated Primer for teachers of the deaf.
Two years later, in 1890, Sarah Fuller became ten-year-old Helen Keller's teacher. Unlike previous teachers, Fuller began teaching Keller to lip-read – touching her hand to the speaker's face – and to speak.
This teaching method aimed to integrate deaf people into society, and although it had a positive side, it also came to be seen as a way of making disability invisible. So while Keller was eager to communicate with the hearing world, she later criticised Fuller's approach; Sullivan's methods, she argued, were closer to the usual way children acquire language, and signing was a language in its own right.
Sarah Fuller helped found the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf in 1890, and became director of that association in 1896. She founded the Home for Little Deaf Children in 1902 and retired as a principal in 1910. The Sarah Fuller Foundation for Little Deaf Children (1888-1972) was named after her.
Sarah was a Member of the Woman's Education Association of Boston; Vice President of the Executive Committee of the Sarah Fuller Home School for Little Deaf Children; Member of the Board of Directors of the Boston Education Association for the Deaf; and Member of the New England Educational League. She favored women's suffrage.
She was the author of several books, including:
- How Helen Keller was taught speech
- Conventions of Articulation Teachers of the Deaf (co-authored with Alexander Graham Bell and Harriet B. Rogers)
- An Illustrated Primer
- A Set of Phonic Charts
- A History of St. Mary's Church, Newton Lower Falls
Sarah was an Episcopalian, a Member of St. Mary's Church in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts, and a Member of the Neighbor Improvement Society, Church Guild.
For recreation, she enjoyed musical entertainments and reading.
Source for some of the foregoing: Leonard, John William, Editor; Woman's Who's Who of America, A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915, page 311. An extensive collection of correspondence between Sarah Fuller and Alexander Graham Bell is available online at the Library of Congress American Memory (go to http://memory.loc.gov/ and search for "Sarah Fuller").
Born in Weston, Massachusetts on February 15, 1836, she was the daughter of Hervey and Celynda (Fiske) Fuller. She was educated in the public schools of Weston and Newton and at the Allan English and Classical School in West Newton, Massachusetts.
After graduating in 1855, she taught in Newton and Boston. In 1869, she trained at the Clarke School for the Deaf under Harriet B. Rogers. At the behest of Rev. Dexter S. King, on November 10, 1869, she organized a public day school for deaf children in Boston called the Boston School for Deaf Mutes (known today as the Horace Mann School for the Deaf). She was Principal of the school from November 10, 1869 until her retirement in June, 1910.
In 1871, Sarah Fuller invited Alexander Graham Bell to teach at the Boston School for Deaf Mutes. He trained the school staff in the skill of teaching deaf children how to speak. Sarah became an advocate of this practice, as well as the promotion of education for deaf children starting at the earliest age possible. They continued a long partnership in the interests of teaching deaf children to speak.
In 1888, she published An Illustrated Primer for teachers of the deaf.
Two years later, in 1890, Sarah Fuller became ten-year-old Helen Keller's teacher. Unlike previous teachers, Fuller began teaching Keller to lip-read – touching her hand to the speaker's face – and to speak.
This teaching method aimed to integrate deaf people into society, and although it had a positive side, it also came to be seen as a way of making disability invisible. So while Keller was eager to communicate with the hearing world, she later criticised Fuller's approach; Sullivan's methods, she argued, were closer to the usual way children acquire language, and signing was a language in its own right.
Sarah Fuller helped found the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf in 1890, and became director of that association in 1896. She founded the Home for Little Deaf Children in 1902 and retired as a principal in 1910. The Sarah Fuller Foundation for Little Deaf Children (1888-1972) was named after her.
Sarah was a Member of the Woman's Education Association of Boston; Vice President of the Executive Committee of the Sarah Fuller Home School for Little Deaf Children; Member of the Board of Directors of the Boston Education Association for the Deaf; and Member of the New England Educational League. She favored women's suffrage.
She was the author of several books, including:
- How Helen Keller was taught speech
- Conventions of Articulation Teachers of the Deaf (co-authored with Alexander Graham Bell and Harriet B. Rogers)
- An Illustrated Primer
- A Set of Phonic Charts
- A History of St. Mary's Church, Newton Lower Falls
Sarah was an Episcopalian, a Member of St. Mary's Church in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts, and a Member of the Neighbor Improvement Society, Church Guild.
For recreation, she enjoyed musical entertainments and reading.
Source for some of the foregoing: Leonard, John William, Editor; Woman's Who's Who of America, A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915, page 311. An extensive collection of correspondence between Sarah Fuller and Alexander Graham Bell is available online at the Library of Congress American Memory (go to http://memory.loc.gov/ and search for "Sarah Fuller").
Sarah Fuller lived at 122 Concord Street, Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts.
Born in Weston, Massachusetts on February 15, 1836, she was the daughter of Hervey and Celynda (Fiske) Fuller. She was educated in the public schools of Weston and Newton and at the Allan English and Classical School in West Newton, Massachusetts.
After graduating in 1855, she taught in Newton and Boston. In 1869, she trained at the Clarke School for the Deaf under Harriet B. Rogers. At the behest of Rev. Dexter S. King, on November 10, 1869, she organized a public day school for deaf children in Boston called the Boston School for Deaf Mutes (known today as the Horace Mann School for the Deaf). She was Principal of the school from November 10, 1869 until her retirement in June, 1910.
In 1871, Sarah Fuller invited Alexander Graham Bell to teach at the Boston School for Deaf Mutes. He trained the school staff in the skill of teaching deaf children how to speak. Sarah became an advocate of this practice, as well as the promotion of education for deaf children starting at the earliest age possible. They continued a long partnership in the interests of teaching deaf children to speak.
In 1888, she published An Illustrated Primer for teachers of the deaf.
Two years later, in 1890, Sarah Fuller became ten-year-old Helen Keller's teacher. Unlike previous teachers, Fuller began teaching Keller to lip-read – touching her hand to the speaker's face – and to speak.
This teaching method aimed to integrate deaf people into society, and although it had a positive side, it also came to be seen as a way of making disability invisible. So while Keller was eager to communicate with the hearing world, she later criticised Fuller's approach; Sullivan's methods, she argued, were closer to the usual way children acquire language, and signing was a language in its own right.
Sarah Fuller helped found the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf in 1890, and became director of that association in 1896. She founded the Home for Little Deaf Children in 1902 and retired as a principal in 1910. The Sarah Fuller Foundation for Little Deaf Children (1888-1972) was named after her.
Sarah was a Member of the Woman's Education Association of Boston; Vice President of the Executive Committee of the Sarah Fuller Home School for Little Deaf Children; Member of the Board of Directors of the Boston Education Association for the Deaf; and Member of the New England Educational League. She favored women's suffrage.
She was the author of several books, including:
- How Helen Keller was taught speech
- Conventions of Articulation Teachers of the Deaf (co-authored with Alexander Graham Bell and Harriet B. Rogers)
- An Illustrated Primer
- A Set of Phonic Charts
- A History of St. Mary's Church, Newton Lower Falls
Sarah was an Episcopalian, a Member of St. Mary's Church in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts, and a Member of the Neighbor Improvement Society, Church Guild.
For recreation, she enjoyed musical entertainments and reading.
Source for some of the foregoing: Leonard, John William, Editor; Woman's Who's Who of America, A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915, page 311. An extensive collection of correspondence between Sarah Fuller and Alexander Graham Bell is available online at the Library of Congress American Memory (go to http://memory.loc.gov/ and search for "Sarah Fuller").
Born in Weston, Massachusetts on February 15, 1836, she was the daughter of Hervey and Celynda (Fiske) Fuller. She was educated in the public schools of Weston and Newton and at the Allan English and Classical School in West Newton, Massachusetts.
After graduating in 1855, she taught in Newton and Boston. In 1869, she trained at the Clarke School for the Deaf under Harriet B. Rogers. At the behest of Rev. Dexter S. King, on November 10, 1869, she organized a public day school for deaf children in Boston called the Boston School for Deaf Mutes (known today as the Horace Mann School for the Deaf). She was Principal of the school from November 10, 1869 until her retirement in June, 1910.
In 1871, Sarah Fuller invited Alexander Graham Bell to teach at the Boston School for Deaf Mutes. He trained the school staff in the skill of teaching deaf children how to speak. Sarah became an advocate of this practice, as well as the promotion of education for deaf children starting at the earliest age possible. They continued a long partnership in the interests of teaching deaf children to speak.
In 1888, she published An Illustrated Primer for teachers of the deaf.
Two years later, in 1890, Sarah Fuller became ten-year-old Helen Keller's teacher. Unlike previous teachers, Fuller began teaching Keller to lip-read – touching her hand to the speaker's face – and to speak.
This teaching method aimed to integrate deaf people into society, and although it had a positive side, it also came to be seen as a way of making disability invisible. So while Keller was eager to communicate with the hearing world, she later criticised Fuller's approach; Sullivan's methods, she argued, were closer to the usual way children acquire language, and signing was a language in its own right.
Sarah Fuller helped found the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf in 1890, and became director of that association in 1896. She founded the Home for Little Deaf Children in 1902 and retired as a principal in 1910. The Sarah Fuller Foundation for Little Deaf Children (1888-1972) was named after her.
Sarah was a Member of the Woman's Education Association of Boston; Vice President of the Executive Committee of the Sarah Fuller Home School for Little Deaf Children; Member of the Board of Directors of the Boston Education Association for the Deaf; and Member of the New England Educational League. She favored women's suffrage.
She was the author of several books, including:
- How Helen Keller was taught speech
- Conventions of Articulation Teachers of the Deaf (co-authored with Alexander Graham Bell and Harriet B. Rogers)
- An Illustrated Primer
- A Set of Phonic Charts
- A History of St. Mary's Church, Newton Lower Falls
Sarah was an Episcopalian, a Member of St. Mary's Church in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts, and a Member of the Neighbor Improvement Society, Church Guild.
For recreation, she enjoyed musical entertainments and reading.
Source for some of the foregoing: Leonard, John William, Editor; Woman's Who's Who of America, A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915, page 311. An extensive collection of correspondence between Sarah Fuller and Alexander Graham Bell is available online at the Library of Congress American Memory (go to http://memory.loc.gov/ and search for "Sarah Fuller").
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Sarah Fuller
1836-1927
Faint carving at top:
Fred
1885
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Large ganite boulder; "The Old Hermit" from the Fuller farm in Weston according to cemetery records.
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