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Mabel Ellery Adams

1865 – 1935

Author on education for children with special needs

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Lived 1865 – 1935 (aged 69–70). Mabel Ellery Adams was an American writer.

Mabel Ellery Adams (2 February 1865 – 23 September 1935) was an American writer on education for children with special needs, a teacher and principal at Horace Mann School in Boston. She was a president of the Sarah Fuller House for Little Deaf Children, a member of the National Research Council at Washington on the Problems of Deaf and a member of the Committee on the Hard-of-Hearing Child.

She is mentioned as a notable American woman in the book Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary.

Mabel Ellery Adams died on 23 September 1935.

Publications (selection)

Adams, M. E. (1896). The Language Sense. American Annals of the Deaf, 278–292. Putnam, G. H., & Adams, M. E. (1896). Two schools across the water. American Annals of the Deaf, 380–390. Adams, M. E. (1903). Trying To Use The Akoulalion.—II. American Annals of the Deaf, 23–33. Adams, M. E. (1904). Three Years Of Language. American Annals of the Deaf, 209–229. Adams, M. E. (1909). A Way Of Imparting Notions Of Tense To Young Deaf Children. American Annals of the Deaf, 160–166. Johnson, R. O., & Adams, M. E. (1910). The Cost And Efficiency Of The Education Of The Deaf In Day-Schools And Institutions. American Annals of the Deaf, 385–394. Adams, M. E. (1910). The Cost and Efficiency of the Education of the Deaf in Day Schools and Institutions. Journal of Education, 72(1), 15-15. Adams, M. E. (1914). The Intelligibility Of The Speech Of The Deaf. American Annals of the Deaf, 451–460. Adams, M. E. (1915). A Lesson In Preparatory History In A Fifth Grade In A School For The Deaf. American Annals of the Deaf, 273–277. Adams, M. E. (1920). History teaching. American Annals of the Deaf, 414–424. Adams, M. E. (1927). How an Old Day-School Serves its Public. American Annals of the Deaf, 140–153. Adams, M. E. (1928). A Preschool Experiment. American Annals of the Deaf, 169–171. Adams, M. E. (1929). A Few Memories Of Alexander Graham Bell. American Annals of the Deaf, 467–479. Adams, M. E. (1931). What Parents Want For Their Deaf Children. American Annals of the Deaf, 264–268. Adams, M. E. (1931). Vocational Training In Day-Schools. American Annals of the Deaf, 243–248.

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1935
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Education
Radcliffe College
Awards
Caroline I. Wilby Prize

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Who was Mabel Ellery Adams?

author on education for children with special needs

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Mabel Ellery Adams was born on 2 February 1865 in Monterey.

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Mabel Ellery Adams died in 1935.

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Mabel Ellery Adams was a writer.

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Mabel Ellery Adams was American.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Mabel Ellery Adams

· Wikidata: Q15929637

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