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Laurent Clerc
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Laurent Clerc (1785-1869)
Overcoming Obstacles
Who Is He?
- He went without any sort of schooling up until he was twelve years old.
- Although he was a Frenchman, he was one of the first deaf teachers in America.
The Start of Something New
How Is Clerc Viewed by the Deaf?
- Never actually learned how to speak.
- Traveled to America.
- Clerc and Gallaudet meet each other as teacher and student.
- Given several honorary degrees, despite no college education.
- When Gallaudet had completed his classes, he asked Clerc to go back to America with him.
- "He ranks as one of the greatest deaf men of all time, and is probably second only to Gallaudet as a benefactor of the deaf of this country."
Off to America!
Dreams Really Do Come True!
- Clerc and Gallaudt set sail for America on June 18, 1816.
- The trip took 52 days!
- A year after coming to America, Clerc and Gallaudet opened a school for the deaf in Hartford, Connecticut.
- While on the ship, the two men discussed how they would open and run the school.
- Gallaudet was the principle of the school, but Clerc led a busy life, too.
- Clerc had to teach as quickly as possible.
- During this time, Clerc and Gallaudet assisted in founding other schools for the deaf.
My Opinion
Fun Facts!
Growing Up
- I think he's brave.
- Clerc came to Washington, D.C. because he was asked to appear before Congress.
- Clerc was born in a small village near Lyons, France on December 26, 1785.
- He met President James Monroe.
- I view him as a pioneer for deaf culture.
- In 1819, he married Eliza Crocker Boardman, with whom he had six children.
- When he was just one year old he was involved in a fire that changed the rest of his life.
- He retired from teaching in 1858.
- Despite his intentions of returning to France, he never did.
- Proves that 'smart' doesn't always equal schooling.
- When he was twelve, he entered the Royal Institute for the Deaf in Paris, France.
- More than thirty residential schools were built during his lifetime.
- When he graduated, the school asked him to stay as an assistant teacher.
- He died on July 18, 1869.
- Selfless
Sidetrack to America
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
- He was studying to be a minister when he met Alice Cogswell.
- Sailed to London in 1815 to seek ideas on how to teach deaf people.
- Met a French educator for the deaf who invited Gallaudet to Paris to learn at the Royal Institute for the Deaf.