Laurent Clerc Research Paper

Laurent Clerc was a deaf person. His full name is Louis Laurent Marie Clerc. Laurent was born in 1785, on December 26th. Surprisingly, he was born in Paris France. His family was wealthy and his parents had good jobs. His dad, Joseph Francois, was civil attorney and his mom was a magistrate. He lost his hearing by simply falling out of a high chair and landing in a fireplace at a young age. He never believed that this actually happened; he thought he was born deaf even though his accident caused a scar on his face. Laurent’s incident also caused him to lose his sense of smell. Although, no one is completely sure if Laurent was born with these deformities or not, the damages are believed to be caused from the incident. Throughout most of Laurent Clerc’s childhood up until he was twelve, his life was pretty boring. He didn’t go to school; h mostly just worked and explored around. He had no real sense of communication and he had no education until he started attending the Institut National des Jeune Sourds-Muetes. It was the first public school for the deaf in the whole world. His uncle-godfather was nice enough to enroll him there. His first ever teacher was names Jean Massieu and was also deaf. She was a young teacher and eventually became one of Clerc’s
They didn’t reach Hartford until over two months later. Clerc started doing speeches and demonstrations of their teaching methods while using Gallaudet as his interpreter to hearing people. They went to many states in the U.S. They began raising money for their school and earned about $17,000. Not even a year after they reached America, their school was somewhat a reality. They had rented rooms and had seven students; Gallaudet’s daughter was one of them. Its original name was the Connecticut Asylum at Hartford for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb Persons but, was eventually renamed the American School for the