| New York School for the Deaf | |
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Greenburgh, New York United States | |
| Coordinates | 41°03′08″N73°47′51″W / 41.0523°N 73.7974°W /41.0523; -73.7974 |
| Information | |
| Type | Private non-profit organization |
| Established | 1817; 208 years ago (1817) |
| Founder | Reverend John Standford |
| Faculty | 110 |
| Grades | Preschool-12 |
| Number of students | 143 |
| Colors | Blue and gold |
| Athletics | Soccer, volleyball, basketball, cheerleading, and track |
| Athletics conference | Eastern Schools for the Deaf Athletic Association & City Schools Sports Association Westchester |
| Mascot | Tornadoes |
| Website | Official NYSD website |
TheNew York School for the Deaf is a private school for the deaf inGreenburgh,New York, inWestchester County just north of New York City, United States. It is private non-profit tax-exempt organization under article501(c)(3) of U.S. law.
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The school had its origins in 1808, when the Rev. John Stanford gathered a small group of deaf children to teach them the alphabet and basic language skills in New York City.[1] The New York School for the Deaf was chartered in 1817 as theNew York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb. It held its first classes inNew York City in 1818, just after theAmerican School for the Deaf, and thus is recognized as the second oldest permanent deaf school in the United States. The firstAfrican American deaf student to be educated in the United States, Horace Crawford, enrolled at the school in 1818.[2]
In 1829 it would move uptown to 49th Street and Madison Avenue.[3] In 1856, this location would be sold toColumbia College (nowColumbia University) and served as the site ofColumbia's Madison Avenue campus. After the 1857 move, it would move toUpper Manhattan to an area then known as Carmansville.[4] In 1892, the school was the first U.S. school of any kind to introduce a military curriculum. For half a century,tight formation drill was an everyday occurrence on the parade grounds.[5][6]
It changed its name to theNew York School for the Deaf in 1933 and moved to its current and final location in Greenburgh, New York in 1938, where it remains.[7] In 1952, the school dropped the military curriculum andwelcomed girls again, and since then has expanded its programs to benefit both deaf and hard-of-hearing school children, and more recently, pre-school classes as well.
Since 1977, Fanwood uses thetotal communication method of deaf education, which employs multiple means of communication includingsign language and other modes, as necessary for each child.
TTY phones andclosed caption TVs were used starting in the 1970s. More recently the school has introduced video phones,interactive whiteboards andcomputer assisted learning.
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