Laurent Clerc and Thomas H Gallaudent
The name of the first school for the deaf in America was Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons. (I know, its long.) Opened in April 15th, 1817. The Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons was the name for short time, changed to American School for the Deaf.
First Deaf school is American School for the Deaf (ASD) was founded at 1817 in Hartford, CT
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Alice Cogswell was born in 1805. She was a young deaf girl who inspired the creation of the American School for the Deaf, which is in Hartford, Connecticut.
The first school for the deaf in the United States was located in Hartford, Connecticut. It was founded by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet in 1817.
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Thomas Gallaudet's, who developed a method to educate people who were hearing impaired, opened the Hartford School for the Deaf in Connecticut in 1817.
The oldest permanent school for the deaf in the U.S is the American School for the Deaf or ASD. It was founded by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc on April 15, 1817 in Hartford, Connecticut.
The first American school for the deaf is is called the American School for the Deaf, which is in West Hartford, Connecticut. It was established by William Bolling on April 15, 1817, and it is still running today.
The first school for the deaf in America was founded by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc in 1817. This school is now known as the American School for the Deaf and is located in Hartford, Connecticut.
The first school for the Deaf was founded by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet wanted to find a way to teach deaf children. His neighbor Mason Gogswell had a deaf daughter, Alice, and Gogswell did not want her locked away in a mental institution, as was common practice during those times. Thomas left the U.S. in search of a way to educate deaf people, in 1816, while in England seeking their method of educating the deaf he attended a deaf-mute show which featured it's star pupil: Laurent Clerc, a brilliant deaf student from France. Gallaudet convinced Clerc to come to the U.S. and help set up a school and hence in 1817 the first school for the Deaf opened in Hartford Connecticut. Source: "Learning to See: Teaching American Sign Language as a Second Language" by Sherman Wilcox and Phyllis Perrin Wilcox (Pp. 17-19)