Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet wife Sophia Fowler was born deaf
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
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.
Samuel Thomas Greene is the most known. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet teaches ASL.
he created the first school for the deaf
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet & Laurent Clerc
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.
Laurent Clerc and Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet did not invent sign language. They were instrumental in establishing the first permanent school for the deaf in the United States, the American School for the Deaf, and in spreading the use of American Sign Language. They recognized the importance of using sign language as a primary means of communication for deaf individuals.
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.
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Thomas Gallaudet-hearing Gridley Howe-blind