“With the first establishment of the first public school for the deaf” in France during the 1760s, Thomas H. Gallaudet transported sign language to America (Supalla, Clark, 2015.) The sign language that Gallaudet transported was within a person named Laurent Clerc. Clerc, like Gallaudet, had the goal to open a school in the United States; and so “The American Asylum for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb -now named American School for the Deaf (ASD), was established in Hartford Connecticut in 1817 (Czech 1830; Eriksson 1993.)”
