History
On 12 November 1860, the school was opened by a Deaf Englishman, Frederick J Rose, in a small house in Peel St, Windsor. It began as a privately run boarding school for deaf students and later became a public school. In 1866, it was re-located to a large bluestone building which was built by William Ireland on St Kilda Road.
The language of education was originally the deaf sign language of Frederick J Rose and his deaf students; F. J Rose's sign language background was the London dialect of British Sign Language, which would heavily influence the development of Australia's own sign language, Auslan, particularly the southern dialect. By 1891, the so-called "combined method" (manual and oral) was introduced.
In 1913, the State Government took over complete responsibility of the education programs of the Victorian Deaf and Dumb Institution.
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