Key People and Places in ASL History
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| Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet | Minister that traveled to Europe to learn how to teach deaf children. He was first principal of ASD.
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| Alice Cogswell | The little girl that inspired Thomas Gallaudet to establish a school for the deaf in America.
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| Abbe Sicard | Taught deaf students using French Sign Language at the Schools for the Deaf in France. One of his students was Laurent Clerc.
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| Jean Massieu | One of Sicard's teachers at the French School for the Deaf
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| Laurent Clerc | One of Sicard's teachers that came to America with Gallaudet to establish the first school for the deaf.
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| American School for the Deaf | The first school for the deaf in America - in Hartford, Conn.
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| Edward Minor Gallaudet | Son of Thomas Gallaudet, and the founder of Gallaudet University.
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| Abraham Lincoln | President that signed the charter to begin Gallaudet University.
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| Gallaudet University | The only Liberal Arts University in the World for the deaf located in Washington, DC.
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| Abbe Charles Michel de l'Epee | Learned signs from French deaf people and set up the first school for the deaf in France.
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| Martha's Vineyard | Island community in which everyone signed. Their deaf children attended ASD and shared their sign language (MVSL) with the other children. Their signs plus the French signs became ASL.
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