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First School for Lip-Reading

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Harriet B. Rogers, assisted by Mary S. Byam, opened the Chelmsford School here in 1866, the first in America to successfully teach lip-reading and speech to deaf children. In 1867 it was moved to Northampton as the Clarke School for the Deaf.
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