- Carlotta Adele Anderson
Carlotta Adele Anderson (Mrs. J. Scott Anderson) (1876- ?) was an American educator, especially interested in the
Montessori method and in the instruction of the deaf and dumb. She was born inNew York City , and studied at various colleges and universities, among them the Wright Humason School for oral teaching of the deaf, and Teachers College,Columbia University . She studied the Montessori method inRome . Herself a teacher of the deaf for some years, she was from 1901 to 1916 the owner of oral schools for the deaf and of teacher-training schools in New York and Pennsylvania. For many years, too, she interested herself in introducing the Montessori method in the public schools. She was in charge of training teachers of the deaf at the New Jersey State Normal School at Trenton (1918-21). She was United States delegate to the third International Congress on Home Education atBrussels in 1910 and was general secretary of the fourth International Congress.*
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