Cheyenne Parker
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- Laruent Clerc getting burned and becoming deaf as a baby
- Clerc being enrolled into school
- When he was enrolled into this school he had a mentor named Jean Massuie. At the time the director of the school named Abbe Sicard was to be put in jail and death. Jean massuei along with students including Clerc petitioned the court for his release. Because of this action Sicard was released.
- Thomas Hopkins Galludet and clerc created the first american sign language school
- When Laruent Clerc was a infant he fell into a fire and was burned. Possibly how he became deaf.
- Clerc going to Washington to convice them.
- When Clerc was twelve his uncle enrolled him into a deaf school. It was the first deaf school in the world.
- American school for the deaf
- Thomas Hopkins and clerec sarted the school in 1817. Now this wasnt the final school, this ¨school had seven kids and was rented rooms. Their first student was named Alice Cogswell.
- Laruent Clerc went to Washington D.c to gain support from congress in 1818. In 1819-1820 with the help Mr. clay the congress of Connecticet granted the school with 23,000 acres of government land. The land was sold for around $300,000.
- They built the school on the land and opened it up
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