What is Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet?
{{no sources|date=November 2013}} '''Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet''' ([[December 10]], [[1787]] - [[September 10]], [[1851]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[teacher]] and the founder of the [[American School for the Deaf]]. He founded the school in [[1817]]. ==History== Gallaudet was born in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]. He went to [[Yale University]]. He got his [[bachelor's degree]] in [[1805]] and [[master's degree]] in [[1808]]. He wanted to do many things for example, study [[law]] or study [[religion]]. In [[1814]], Gallaudet became a [[preacher]]. Gallaudet chose not to become a preacher when he met Alice Cogswell, the nine-year-old [[deaf]] daughter of a [[neighbor]], Dr. Mason Cogswell. He taught her many words by writing them in the dirt. Cogswell asked Gallaudet to go to [[Europe]] to learn ways for teaching deaf people. While in [[Great Britain]], he met Abbé Sicard, head of a school for deaf people in [[Paris]], and two of its deaf teachers, [[Laurent Clerc]] and Jean Massieu. Sicard asked Gallaudet to go to Paris to study the school's ways of teaching the deaf. Gallaudet studied with Sicard. He learned [[sign language]] from Massieu and Clerc, who were both graduates of the school. Gallaudet asked Clerc to go back to America with him. The two men toured [[New England]] and got [[money]] to create a school for deaf students in [[Hartford, Connecticut]] which later became known as the [[American School for the Deaf]]. Young Alice was one of the first seven students in the United States. {{DEFAULTSORT:Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins}} [[Category:1787 births]] [[Category:1851 deaths]] [[Category:American teachers]] [[Category:Yale University alumni]] [[Category:Educators from Philadelphia]]