Mabel Ellery Adams (2 February 1865 – 23 September 1935)[1] was an American writer on education for children with special needs, a teacher and principal at Horace Mann School in Boston.
[2] She was a president of the Sarah Fuller House for Little Deaf Children, a member of the National Research Council at Washington on the Problems of Deaf and a member of the Committee on the Hard-of-Hearing Child.
In 1907, she received the Caroline Wilby Prize for an inquiry into the condition of 100 deaf persons who had been pupils at the Horace Mann School in Boston.
[1] From 1919 to 1935, Adams was a principal of the Horace Mann School for the Deaf in Boston.
[1] In 1933, Adams attended the 28th meeting of the convention of American Instructors of the Deaf in a joint meeting with an international congress on education of the deaf in West Trenton, New Jersey.