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American School for the Deaf, the Glossary

The American School for the Deaf (ASD), originally The American Asylum, At Hartford, For The Education And Instruction Of The Deaf, is the oldest permanent school for the deaf in the United States, and the first school for deaf children anywhere in the western hemisphere.^[1]

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1817 establishments in Connecticut
Educational institutions established in 1817
Private K–12 schools in the United States
Private elementary schools in Connecticut
Private high schools in Connecticut
Private middle schools in Connecticut
Schools in Connecticut
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Alice Cogswell

Alice Cogswell (August 31, 1805 – December 30, 1830) was the inspiration to Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet for the creation of the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut.

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American Sign Language

American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada.

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Deaf education

Deaf education is the education of students with any degree of hearing loss or deafness.

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Deafness

Deafness has varying definitions in cultural and medical contexts.

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Edmund Booth

Edmund Booth (1810 – 1905) was a journalist, writer, and leader in the American deaf community.

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Fever

Fever or pyrexia in humans is a body temperature above the normal range due to an increase in the body's temperature set point in the hypothalamus.

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Florence Lewis May

Florence Lewis May (December 9, 1899 – September 6, 1988) was an American art historian and curator.

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Gallaudet University

Gallaudet University is a private federally chartered university in Washington, D.C., for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing.

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Georgia School for the Deaf

Georgia School for the Deaf (GSD) is a public residential school for the deaf. American School for the Deaf and Georgia School for the Deaf are schools for the deaf in the United States.

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Goochland, Virginia

Goochland is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the county seat of Goochland County, Virginia, United States.

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Hartford Courant

The Hartford Courant is the largest daily newspaper in the U.S. state of Connecticut, and is advertised as the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States.

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Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Homeschooling

Homeschooling or home schooling, also known as home education or elective home education (EHE), is the education of school-aged children at home or a variety of places other than a school.

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Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris

(National Institute for Deaf Children of Paris) is the current name of the school for the Deaf founded by Charles-Michel de l'Épée, in stages, between 1750 and 1760 in Paris, France.

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Iowa School for the Deaf

Iowa School for the Deaf is a pre-K to 12th grade school for deaf and hard-of-hearing students located in Council Bluffs, Iowa. American School for the Deaf and Iowa School for the Deaf are schools for the deaf in the United States.

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John B. Hotchkiss

John Burton Hotchkiss (August 22, 1845 – November 3, 1922) was an American football coach and professor.

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John Brewster Jr.

John Brewster Jr. (May 30 or May 31, 1766 – August 13, 1854) was a prolific, Deaf itinerant painter who produced many charming portraits of well-off New England families, especially their children.

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John Flournoy

John Jacobus Flournoy (1808–1879), a graduate of the American School for the Deaf, is best remembered as an advocate for a deaf state and for his resistance to black abolition in the United States.

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Julia Brace

Julia Brace (June 13, 1807 – August 12, 1884) was a deafblind woman who enrolled at the American School for the Deaf, in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1825 and remained there as an employee after her graduation.

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Laurent Clerc

Louis Laurent Marie Clerc (26 December 1788 – 18 July 1869) was a French teacher called "The Apostle of the Deaf in America" and was regarded as the most renowned deaf person in American Deaf History.

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Mason Fitch Cogswell

Mason Fitch Cogswell (1761–1830) was an American physician who pioneered education for the deaf.

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National Theatre of the Deaf

The National Theatre of the Deaf (NTD) is a Connecticut-based theatre company founded in 1967.

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New England

New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Phillips Academy

Phillips Academy (also known as PA, Phillips Academy Andover, or simply Andover) is a co-educational college-preparatory school for boarding and day students located in Andover, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston.

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Thomas Braidwood

Thomas Braidwood (1715–1806) was a Scottish educator, significant in the history of deaf education.

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Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (December 10, 1787 – September 10, 1851) was an American educator.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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West Hartford, Connecticut

West Hartford is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, west of downtown Hartford.

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Western Hemisphere

The Western Hemisphere is the half of the planet Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian—which crosses Greenwich, London, England—and east of the 180th meridian.

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