History
It was founded in or before the 1860s to teach deaf Jewish children to speak
William Van Praagh was its Director in the late 1860s and early 1870s (The Times, 22 July 1871)
Van Praagh was one of the key men responsible for reviving speech teaching to the deaf in the UK (Jan Branson and Don Miller, Damned for their Difference: The Cultural Construction of Deaf People as Disabled, 2002)
Van Praagh, who was Jewish, had been invited to England to help convert the School from the manual to the oral method of teaching speech (Marjoke Rietveld-van Wingerden and Wim Westerman, ‘ “Hear, Israel”: The Involvement of Jews in Education of the Deaf (1850–1880),’ Jewish History, vol. 23 (2009)
The School apparently no longer exists
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What was reforming about it?
It was one of the few institutions to offer speech teaching to the deaf at the time (Jan Branson and Don Miller, Damned for their Difference: The Cultural Construction of Deaf People as Disabled, 2002)
Where in Bloomsbury
It was at 164 Euston Road, opposite St Pancras Church, in the late 1860s and early 1870s (The Times, 22 July 1871); it was said to have been there for “three or four years” by 1871 (British Medical Journal, 4 November 1871)
It was apparently no longer there in the 1880s
Website of current institution
It apparently no longer exists
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