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Harriet Burbank Rogers

American educator
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April 12, 1834, North Billerica, Massachusetts, U.S.
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December 12, 1919, North Billerica (aged 85)
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Harriet Burbank Rogers (born April 12, 1834, North Billerica, Massachusetts, U.S.—died December 12, 1919, North Billerica) was an educator and pioneer in the oral method of instruction of the deaf in the United States. After graduating from Massachusetts State Normal School (now Framingham State College) in 1851, Rogers taught at several schools in Massachusetts. Her prominence as an American educator began in 1863, when she accepted a deaf girl for private instruction. Rogers had read about the use of oral teaching (a method involving the imitation of the instructor’s breathing patterns and larynx vibrations) in German schools for the deaf, ...(100 of 202 words)

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