The California School for the Deaf is a school for

deaf Deafness has varying definitions in cultural and medical contexts. In medical contexts, the meaning of deafness is hearing loss that precludes a person from understanding spoken language, an audiological condition. In this context it is written ...

children in

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. The school educates deaf children from all over

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. Its campus in Fremont is adjacent to the campus of the

California School for the Blind The California School for the Blind is a public educational institution for blind children, K-12, located in Fremont, California. Its campus is located next to the California School for the Deaf. History The San Francisco area's education of ...

. Its companion school in

Southern California Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. It includes the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the second most populous urban ...

is CSD-Riverside.

History

Founded in San Francisco in 1860, the school moved to Berkeley in 1869. The new site, constructed in 1869 at 2601 Warring St., Berkeley, CA, adjacent to the campus of the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant un ...

, served as the school for the deaf until the late 1970s, when the University of California successfully petitioned for it to be condemned as seismically unsafe, forcing the school to move. A '' Daily Cal'' article on November 29, 1979, reported that the university administration had "coveted the Deaf and Blind School land for 57 years." Half of the school's land went to UC Berkeley, while the other half went to the city. After the location was taken over by the university, it was renamed

Clark Kerr Clark Kerr (May 17, 1911 – December 1, 2003) was an American professor of economics and academic administrator. He was the first chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, and twelfth president of the University of California. Bi ...

campus, in honor of the first chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, and has served as an additional dormitory unit for its students. The school opened in a new facility in

in Fall 1980. Henry Klopping became superintendent in 1975. By 2009 the staff became made up of predominantly deaf individuals when previously there were few in the administration.

Campus

The school has dormitories.

Notable alumni

Robert R. Davila Dr. Robert Davila (born July 19, 1932) served as the ninth president of Gallaudet University,Pre ...

, ninth president of

Gallaudet University Gallaudet University ( ) is a private university, private University charter#Federal, federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. for the education of the Hearing loss, deaf and hard of hearing. It was founded in 1864 as a gramma ...

Lang, Harry G., Cohen, Oscar P. and Joseph E. Fischgrund. 2007. ''Moments of Truth: Robert R. Davila, the Story of a Deaf Leader''. Rochester, NY: RIT Press, p. 17 *

Jack R. Gannon Jack Randle Gannon (November 23, 1936March 14, 2022) was an American author and historian of Deaf culture. Deaf since age eight, he had chronicled the history and culture of Deaf people and organizations around the world, most notably in his 1981 ...

, teacher, coach, and author *

Granville Redmond Granville Richard Seymour Redmond (March 9, 1871 – May 24, 1935) was an American landscape painter and exponent of Tonalism and California Impressionism. He was also an occasional actor for his friend Charlie Chaplin. Early years Red ...

Louise Stern Louise Stern (born 1978) is an American writer and artist, and works around ideas of language, communication and isolation. Stern grew up in an exclusively deaf community and is fourth-generation deaf on her father's side, and third-generation ...

, writer and artist *

Shoshannah Stern Shoshannah Stern (born July 3, 1980) is an American actress and writer. Life and career She was born in Walnut Creek, California, into an observant Jewish and fourth-generation Deaf culture, Deaf family, the daughter of Ron Stern and Hedy Marilyn ...

, actress *

Douglas Tilden Douglas Tilden (May 1, 1860 to August 5, 1935) was an American sculptor. He was deaf from a bout of scarlet fever at the age of four and attended the California School for the Deaf in Berkeley, California (now in Fremont, California). He s ...

References

article about history of Berkeley campus of School for the Deaf

External links

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CSD Alumni Association Website
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History

Campus

Notable alumni

See also

References

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