NORTHAMPTON — Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech has begun paying out funds to survivors of physical and sexual abuse that took place decades...
How can something I thought was so right turn out to be so wrong? How did my helping people end up hurting them? How do I turn my back on a...
Disappointed by Gazette’s Clarke schools coverageI am disappointed in the Gazette’s reporting on Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech. There is a...
It’s easy to judge the past through the lens of the present, but even 45 years ago, when Mary E. Numbers published her book about the first hundred...
I was deeply disturbed to read your feature report on Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech in the Saturday, Jan. 12 paper. I found it read like...
By DOUG SCOTTMethodological approaches for teaching children who are deaf or hard of hearing in the U.S. have been divided since the 18th century....
NORTHAMPTON — Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech, formerly the Clarke School for the Deaf, is no longer residential, having shuttered its dorms...
Brent Borden had just arrived at the Clarke School for the Deaf in 1963 when a housemother slapped him and knocked him into a dresser. He was 5.She...
NORTHAMPTON — The history of the Clarke School provides a window into the longstanding controversy over deaf education in the United States.Clarke...
A damning report issued this year by a New York City law firm describes a pattern of physical and sexual abuse of students primarily between the...
NORTHAMPTON — A report released in April to alumni of what is now the Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech found evidence that some former...