Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

Sofia Fowler

Health Issues

Changing Careers

Hartford, Connecticut

Family

Early Life

Yale

Seminary

Alice Cogswell

Laurent Clerc

Sign Language

Preacher

France

Abbe Sicard

Bringing God to the Deaf

American School for the Deaf

President James Monroe

Deaf Can Be Educated

Isolation

Advocating for the Deaf

Signing and Lip Reading

Gallaudet University

President Abraham Lincoln

Deaf, not Disabled

No Longer Isolated

Forming a Community

Edward Gallaudet

Thomas Gallaudet

William C. Stokoe, Jr.

New View of the Deaf

Continue Educating the Deaf

Deaf President Now

Equality

Local Deaf Schools

Increasing Deaf Education

Mainstream Deaf Programs

Career Opportunities

Jail Minister

Minister for the Insane

Health Complications

Left School in 1831

Death in 1851

Continued Advocacy