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Laurent Clerc


 

Laurent Clerc (born Louis Laurent Marie Clerc) was born December 26, 1785 in La Balme les Grottes, department of Isere, France, a village on the northeaster edge of Lyon. Clerc has been called "The Apostle of the Deaf in American" and "The Father of the Deaf" by every generation of American deaf people since he co-founded the first school for the deaf in North America in Hartford, Connecticut. Along with co-founder Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, he opened Hartford Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb on April 15, 1817 in the old Bennet's City Hotel. The school was subsequently re-named The American School for the Deaf and in 1821 moved to its present site. The school remains the oldest existing school for the deaf in the United States.

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December 26 - 1785 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

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►Introduction
►Early years
►Royal Institution for the Deaf, Paris
►Hartford, Connecticut
►Laurent, South Dakota
►See also
►External links
►References

 

 

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