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Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator, founded the American School for the Deaf (died 1851)
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Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
American educator (1787–1851)
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was an American educator. Along with Laurent Clerc and Mason Cogswell, he co-founded the first permanent institution for the education of the deaf in North America, and he became its first principal. When opened on April 15, 1817, it was called the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
American School for the Deaf
Private school in Hartford, Connecticut
The American School for the Deaf (ASD), originally The American Asylum, At Hartford, For The Education And Instruction Of The Deaf, is the oldest permanent school for the deaf in the United States, and the first school for deaf children anywhere in the western hemisphere. It was…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)