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Laurent Clerc was born in a small village near Lyons, France, on December 26, 1785. He was born hearing, but when he was one year old, he fell into a fire. As a result, he lost both his hearing and his sense of smell. The right side of his face was badly burned, and was scarred for his whole life.
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787–1851) was a hearing American, a minister by training, and a graduate of Yale. Laurent Clerc (1785–1869) was a Deaf Frenchman, a fluent signer, and a gifted teacher at his former school, the National Institute at Paris. Together, they sought to transform the lives of the deaf in the United States.
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Feb 8, 2024 · In my research about Laurent Clerc, I am often brought to the point of asking myself what the motivations were for Laurent to accept the idea that it would be better to immigrate to a young United States versus staying put and working in the Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris. What were his possibilities there or what obstacles did he face in this milieu to meeting his own needs? Was ...
Louis Laurent Marie Clerc was a French teacher called "The Apostle of the Deaf in America" and was regarded as the most renowned deaf person in American Deaf History. He was taught by Abbé Sicard and deaf educator Jean Massieu, at the Institution Nationale des Sourds-Muets in Paris. With Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, he co-founded the first school for the deaf in North America, the Asylum for the ...
With Mr. Gallaudet, Mr. Clerc left France on the 18th of June, 1816, in the ship "Mary Augusta". Owing to adverse winds and frequent calms, the voyage lasted fifty-two days. During that time, Clerc taught Gallaudet method of signs for abstract ideas and Dr. Gallaudet taught Clerc the English language.
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Louis Laurent Marie Clerc was born into an important family on December 26, 1785 in La Balme-les-Grottes, in southeastern France. From the 15th century, the males in the Clerc family had served the king through the office of Tubelion or the Royal Commissary. His father, Joseph Francois, was the royal civil attorney, justice of the peace, and ...
Feb 15, 2021 · Louis Laurent Marie Clerc was born in France on December 26, 1785. When he was one year old, he fell out of his highchair and into the fireplace. It is believed by most that this incident was the cause of his deafness. When Clerc was twelve, he started attending the School for the Deaf in Paris.
