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- The Beginning
- My daughter has no language and because of her safety, we aren’t willing to have her attend Braidswood.
- Your daughter should be able to find education here and I want to help make that happen!
- Off to Europe
- We want to send you to Europe so you can learn how to teach deaf people.
- Of course I’ll go to Europe!!
- Meeting Laurent Clerc
- I Think it would be a great idea for me to come with you to America so I can help you build a school for the deaf there.
- That’s a great idea Clerc!
- Thomas Gallaudet notices that Alice Cogswell, his neighbor and daughter of Mason Fitch Cogswell, is language less and thinks effort needs to be made to teach her.
- First enrolled student
- Congratulations on being our first enrolled student!!
- He convened a meeting with 10 “city fathers” that were able to raise enough funds to send Gallaudet to Europe.
- Big Steps
- We’re finally able to build our own school for the deaf in America!
- Gallaudet meets Clerc when he attends a public demonstration given by abbé Sicard in London. Later Clerc offers to go to America with Gallaudet to help establish a school.
- ASL borrows from French
- I hope you don’t mind Clerc, but we have taken some of your French signs and have added it to our native language.I hope you don’t mind Clerc, but we have taken some of your French signs and have added it to our native language.
- In 1817, Gallaudet and Clerc rent rooms whereAlice Cogswell becomes their first student to enroll.
- In 1818, Gallaudet and Clerc get a congressman from Connecticut to sponser the school and grant then 20,000 acres of land were they would build their school.
- Because Clerc taught French sign, students of his blended their own created native language with his teachings. This evolved into ASL.
- My daughter has no language and because of her safety, we aren’t willing to have her attend Braidswood.
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