Laurent Clerc and Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

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  1. 4. Clerc's mode of instruction was French signs. His students learned those signs for their studies. However, for their own use, they also borrowed and changed some of those signs and blended them with their own _______ ____________.
  2. 6. After coming back from Europe along with Laurent Cler, Gaulladet opened the first deaf school in America called "the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons." It was built in what state?
  3. 7. Thomas Gallaudet's work was important because it allowed society to understand that those who are deaf can be _______.
  4. 8. Gallaudet's work helped develop the American Sign Language, the most widely-used form of communication for the deaf ______ in the world.
  5. 10. Edward Miner Gaulladet was Thomas Gaulladet's son, he followed in his father's footsteps and was very involved in the deaf community.He also had a part in creating _____ communities in the US.
  6. 11. Thomas and Laurent toured New England and successfully raised private and public funds to found the school for the _____ that they wanted to start.
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  1. 1. Laurent Clerc was a highly educated graduate of a school for the deaf in France and when Thomas Gallaudet went to Europe he met Clerc and was asked by Gaulladet to came back to America with him to help establish his new _____ for the deaf.
  2. 2. Laurent Clerc and Thomas Gaulladet created a school to help the deaf and teach them. I think that that has really helped our society today move forward and i think that he also helped the deaf's movements for their ______ happen earlier than it could have.
  3. 3. Became the first deaf teacher of deaf students in America.(2 words)
  4. 4. When Laurent Clerc was about a year old, he fell from his high chair and into the kitchen fireplace and severely burned his cheek. From the burn he got a fever that damaged his hearing and sense of ____.
  5. 5. Gallaudet and Clerc's travel from France back to the United States took 52 days. During that time Clerc taught Gallaudet signs to use and Gallaudet helped Clerc better ____ in English.
  6. 9. Thomas Gallaudet met a young deaf girl named Alice, he wanted to teach her and went where to find out how?