To the Deaf community, thank you for the opportunity to learn about your language and culture!

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A long time ago, (in 1814, to be precise) a man named Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was watching his younger siblings playing. He noticed a young girl being left out of the fun. The little girl was a neighbor named Alice Cogswell, and as he spoke to her, he discovered she was deaf.
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Gallaudet wanted to interact with the girl, but he didn't know how. Then he had an idea. He pointed to his hat and wrote H-A-T in the dirt. She understood! He wished there was a better way of communicating with her, but how?
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Gallaudet spoke to Alice's father, a doctor named Mason Cogswell. They had heard of schools across the ocean in Europe, that had come up with better ways of communication for deaf people. Alice's father paid for Gallaudet to sail to Europe to learn about what and how these schools taught.
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The first place Thomas stopped was in England. There were many schools for deaf people ran by the Braidwood family. The Braidwoods wanted a lot of money to share their techniques, and their schools used oralist methods, making students learn to read lips and speak. This didn't seem like a good method to Thomas, so he kept searching.
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To the Deaf community, thank you for the opportunity to learn about your language and culture!

Created & published on StoryJumper™ ©2025 StoryJumper, Inc.
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A long time ago, (in 1814, to be precise) a man named Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was watching his younger siblings playing. He noticed a young girl being left out of the fun. The little girl was a neighbor named Alice Cogswell, and as he spoke to her, he discovered she was deaf.
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"How ASL Began"
The story of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc, who founded the first American school for the deaf and created American Sign Language.
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