<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hopkins_Gallaudet" id="mwXA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet">Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_Clerc" id="mwXQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Laurent Clerc">Laurent Clerc</a> found the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_School_for_the_Deaf" id="mwXg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="American School for the Deaf">American School for the Deaf</a> (then called the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons), the first American school for deaf students, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford,_Connecticut" id="mwXw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hartford, Connecticut">Hartford, Connecticut</a>.<sup about="#mwt58" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"}}' id="cite_ref-9" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_15#cite_note-9" id="mwYA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwYQ">[9]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"><cite about="#mwt55" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFCrouch1994">Crouch, Barry A. (1994). "Lessons From the Connecticut Asylum". In Erting, Carol J.; Johnson, Robert C.; Smith, Dorothy L.; Snider, Bruce D. (eds.). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=bqJxAcmA9yEC" id="mwBzM" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBzQ">The Deaf Way: Perspectives From the International Conference on Deaf Culture</i></a>. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. p.<span id="mwBzU" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>226. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBzY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBzc" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9781563680267" id="mwBzg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9781563680267"><bdi id="mwBzk">9781563680267</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt55" class="Z3988" id="mwBzo" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=bookitem&amp;rft.atitle=Lessons+From+the+Connecticut+Asylum&amp;rft.btitle=The+Deaf+Way%3A+Perspectives+From+the+International+Conference+on+Deaf+Culture&amp;rft.place=Washington%2C+D.C.&amp;rft.pages=226&amp;rft.pub=Gallaudet+University+Press&amp;rft.date=1994&amp;rft.isbn=9781563680267&amp;rft.aulast=Crouch&amp;rft.aufirst=Barry+A.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DbqJxAcmA9yEC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AApril+15"></span></span>