How the 1st School for the Deaf was Established in America
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- Before opening the school, educator Thomas Hopkin Gallaudet worked as a priest and traveled across the state.
- I go wherever I need to do! I want to help all I can.
- Gallaudet, after meeting his neighbor's deaf and mute daughter, Alice Cogswell, is inspired by her to want to teach children like her how to communicate.
- This child is so intelligent.. I cannot just let her go without a way to communicate!
- This is boring..
- Gallaudet visits England to learn how the schools there teach deaf children, but he is declined from observing.
- Can I-
- No.
- After his misfortune in England, Gallaudet travels to Paris, France and meets Laurent Clerc, who agrees to join him to open a school in the US for deaf and mute people.
- What an intellectual! Would you like to leave your home with a stranger to open a school for deaf children to communicate in?
- Sounds revolutionary! Sign me up!
- In 1817, Clerc and Gallaudet open the Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb(mute).
- Come one, come all!
- Overtime, as deaf people in America travel to the school, the different types of sign language merge together to create ASL, which will go on to become an official language in the future.
- I'm so glad there's a school for people like me to communicate together in!
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