Central School for the Deaf

The , formerly the , is a public school for the deaf in , Suginami, Tokyo,Home . Central School for the Deaf. Retrieved on September 9, 2019. "〒168-0073 東京都杉並区下高井戸2－22－10" managed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education. It was the first Deaf educational program to be established in the eastern capital during the Meiji period.

History The Tokyo School for the Deaf was established in 1880.Tsuchiya, Michiko. (1994). Initially, the school adopted a manual teaching method, despite international trends towards oralism.Tsuchiya, In 1897, the director was Shinpachi Konishi.

In 1915, alumni of the Tokyo School for the Deaf founded the Japanese Association of the Deaf. This organization was the precursor of the Japanese Federation of the Deaf.Nakamura, Karen. "Resistance and Co-optation: the Japanese Federation of the Deaf and its Relations with State Power," Social Science Japan Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1 (April 2002), pp 17-35, 20.

By the 1930s, the institution had grown to include an elementary school, a middle school, and a training department. The training department was intended for the training of those who planned to be teaching the Deaf.Monbushō. (1935). Annual report of the Minister of State for Education, p. 442.

Program Currently, the Central School for the Deaf serves students in two Tokyo venues: Shakuji Campus (石神井校舎) in Nerima and Otsuka Campus (大塚校舎) in Toshima. Otsuka is now .

In September 2010, some of the Tokyo faculty and students begin participating in an exchange program with their counterparts at Rochester School for the Deaf in Rochester, New York. "US-Japan Foundation Funds Project at NTID," NTID News. May 26, 2010.

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References Erting, Carol. J. (1994). The Deaf Way: Perspectives from the International Conference on Deaf Culture (1989). Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press. ; OCLC 260213909

External links Tokyo Central School for the Deaf