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 hearing impaired school in the United States was established by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc in 1817. Gallaudet and Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut.
First Deaf school is American School for the Deaf (ASD) was founded at 1817 in Hartford, CT
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.
West Hartford, Connecticut. It was established April 15, 1817, and it is still running today.
The first deaf school in the US was a residential school founded by Clerk and Gallaudet.
Abbe Charles Michel de L'Epee established the first public free deaf school in 1771. The signs soon became a standard signed language. Today, Abbe de L'Epee is known in Deaf history as the "Father of the Deaf" because of the twenty-one schools he established and all he has done for the deaf
Thomas Gallaudet
Thomas Gallaudet
John Braidwood opened the first American school for deaf children in 1815. The Braidwood school in Cobb, Virginia would be shut down by 1817. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf in April, 1817.
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)
Laurent Clerc is famous for being a Deaf educator and co-founder of the first school for the Deaf in the United States, the American School for the Deaf in Connecticut. He was instrumental in promoting the use of American Sign Language and the advancement of Deaf education in America.