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Creating A Home

- Gallaudet went to Europe where he met Abbe Sicard of Institute Nationale des Sourds-Muetes a Paris and Laurent Clerc and Jean Massieu

- studied their methods of teaching manual communication

- learned FSL from Clerc and Massieu

- came back to America with Clerc in tow and the French Model

- 1817: Conneticuit Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons created

-> renamed to American School for the Deaf

-> enrollment started with 8 at beginning of year and ended with 30

The Spark

- 1814: met mute and deaf nine-year-old Alice Cogswell

-found her interesting and began to teach her names of objects

- wanted to help her so began looking at schools for deaf and found some in Europe

- wanted to take Alice to Europe with him, but parents didn't agree

-Gallaudet went himself

Why Him

- instrumental in the creation of ASL

- showed people that the deaf weren't incapable of learning

- made sure that deaf people weren't mistreated and received the same rights as others

American School for the Deaf

Laurent Clerc

The Start

What Happened Next

- born in Philadelphia on December 10, 1787

- attended Yale at age of 15 and graduated in 1805, a short time before turning 18

- went for law degree, but only was in the business for a while before taking up odd jobs

- door-to-door salesman in rural Kentucky and Ohio

-> led to Gallaudet teaching children history, the bible, and geography

- went back to school and graduated from Andover Theological Seminary in 1812 as a liscensed preacher

-> travel preacher due to health problems.

- 1821: Gallaudet married former student Sophia Fowler in August

- had 8 children

- Edward founded 1st college for the deaf in 1864 - Gallaudet University

- stopped working at the school in 1831 and took on 2 jobs as a minister at local jail and retreat for the insane

- 1851: died in September due to complications of his lung cancer

Sophia Fowler

A Note About Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

Works Cited

Another Note About Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

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Enders, Katalin. "Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins." Learning to Give. Learning to Give and Grand Valley State Universtiy, n.d. Web. 18 May 2015. <http://learningtogive.org/papers/paper98.html>.

"Laurent Clerc: Apostle to the Deaf People of the New World." Laurent Clerc: Apostle to the Deaf People of the New World. Gallaudet University, n.d. Web. 18 May 2015. <http://www.gallaudet.edu/clerc_center/welcome/laurent_clerc_the_man.html>.

Patterson, Lindsey. "American School for the Deaf (ASD)." Encyclopedia of American Disability History, 3-Volume Set. New York: Facts On File, 2009. American History Online. Web. 18 May 2015. <http://online.infobase.com/HRC/Search/Details/208286?q=thomas hopkins gallaudet>.

"Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet." Encyclopedia of World Biography. 2nd ed. Vol. 6. Detroit: Gale, 2004. 185. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 18 May 2015. http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX3404702365&v=2.1&u=tlc119114582&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w&asid=730c1e0adc41ce390f4b97856d08cc02

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- statue of him and Alice Cogswell in front of Gallaudet University

- put on a 20 cent postage stamp in June 1983

- received honorary Doc. of Law degree form Western Reserve College

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