As catalysts for Deaf education in North America and American Sign Language, My ASL Dictionary has several cartoons of Gallaudet and Clerc, beginning with the book’s cover.
Leaving his home in Paris, the Deaf Master Teacher Laurent Marie Clerc joined his friend Thomas Gallaudet back to the States, where the two would work together to create and establish America’s first School for the Deaf.
A cartoon of a young Laurent Clerc shows the ASL hand sign for DEAF.
Index finger touches near ear then arcs down to the corner of lips.
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