My Heart Glow: Alice Cogswell, Thomas Gallaudet, and the Birth of American Sign Language

My Heart Glow: Alice Cogswell, Thomas Gallaudet, and the Birth of American Sign Language by Emily Arnold McCully. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781423100287.

Alice Cogswell was a bright and curious child and a quick learner. She also couldnt hear. And, unfortunately, in the early nineteenth century in America, there was no way to teach deaf children. One day, though, an equally curious young man named Thomas Gallaudet, Alices neighbor, senses Alices intelligence and agrees to find a way to teach her. Gallaudets interest in young Alice carries him across the ocean and back and eventually inspires him to create the nations first school for the deaf, thus improving young Alices life and the lives of generations of young, deaf students to come.