American school for the Deaf - wikipedia American school for the Deaf This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( July 2009 ) American School for the Deaf Location West Hartford, Connecticut Coordinates 41 ° 46 ′ 16 '' N 72 ° 44 ′ 50 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 41.7710 ° N 72.7473 ° W ﻿ / 41.7710 ; - 72.7473 Coordinates : 41 ° 46 ′ 16 '' N 72 ° 44 ′ 50 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 41.7710 ° N 72.7473 ° W ﻿ / 41.7710 ; - 72.7473 Information Type Public Established April 15, 1817 Director of education Tommy Meehan Staff 328 Grades K - 12 Number of students 174 Color ( s ) Black and orange Athletics Soccer, Volleyball, Basketball, Cheerleading, Track & Field, and Softball Mascot Tigers Website Official ASD Website The American School for the Deaf ( ASD ) is the oldest permanent school for the deaf in the United States. It was founded April 15, 1817, in West Hartford, Connecticut, by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Dr. Mason Cogswell, and Laurent Clerc and became a state - supported school later that year. It was also the second and present site of Hubbard 's school. Contents 1 History 2 Athletics 3 Camp Isola Bella 4 National Theater of the Deaf 5 Alumni 6 References 7 External links History The first deaf school in the United States was short - lived : established in 1815 by Col. William Bolling of Goochland, Virginia, in nearby Cobbs, with John Braidwood ( tutor of Bolling 's two deaf children ) as teacher, it closed in the fall of 1816. Gallaudet Memorial by Daniel Chester French ( 1925 ) at American School for the Deaf During the winter of 1818 -- 1819, the American School for the Deaf became the first school of primary and secondary education to receive aid from the federal government when it was granted $300,000. As a result of its pivotal role in American deaf history, it also hosts a museum containing numerous rare and old items. While it is situated on a 54 - acre ( 220,000 m ) campus, the ASD has a small enrollment -- in its history, the ASD has graduated approximately 6000 graduates. The impetus behind its founding was the fact that Alice Cogswell, the daughter of a wealthy local surgeon ( Mason Fitch Cogswell ), was deafened in childhood by fever at a time when the British schools were an unacceptable substitute for a local school. Dr. Cogswell prevailed upon the young Gallaudet ( who had recently graduated from Yale University 's School of Divinity and had begun studying at Andover ). Gallaudet met young Alice in Hartford, where he was recovering from a chronic illness. Laurent Clerc Bust by Carl Conrads Cogswell and nine other citizens decided that the known 84 deaf children in New England needed appropriate facilities. However, competent teachers could not be found, so they sent Gallaudet in 1815 on a tour of Europe, where deaf education was a much more developed art. After being rebuffed by the Braidwoods, Gallaudet turned to the Parisian French schoolteachers of the famous school for the Deaf in Paris, where he successfully recruited Laurent Clerc. On the strength of Clerc 's reputation, the ASD was incorporated as the `` American Asylum for the Education of Deaf and Dumb Persons, '' as it was originally known, in May 1816. When it opened in 1817, there were seven students enrolled : Alice Cogswell, George Loring, Wilson Whiton, Abigail Dillingham, Otis Waters, John Brewster, and Nancy Orr. The original name of the school was : The Connecticut Asylum ( at Hartford ) for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons. John Brewster Jr., was a 51 - year - old itinerant portrait painter. Gallaudet was principal until 1830. His son followed in his legacy, establishing Gallaudet University, which followed the ASD 's lead and taught students primarily in American Sign Language ( derived from the methodical signs and Parisian sign language of the French Institute for the Deaf ). Panel from original Gallaudet monument ( 1854 ) depicting Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet teaching children the manual alphabet. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell signing the letter A. Laurent Clerc memorial - The name `` Clerc '' is spelled out in sign language at the base of the monument. Athletics The school is part of NEPSAC Fall : Soccer and Volleyball Winter : Basketball and Cheerleader Spring : Track and field and Softball Camp isola Bella Isola Bella is ASD 's summer camp for Deaf and Hard of Hearing children located in northwestern Connecticut near Salisbury on an island on Lake Washining. It was established in 1964, after a will of the island from ASD trustees Ferrari and Muriel Ward. There are two sessions, session 1 for ages 8 -- 12 and session 2 for 13 - 18. National theater of the Deaf In 2004, America 's National Theatre of the Deaf ( NTD ) moved its corporate headquarters to the campus of the American School for the Deaf. Alumni Edmund Booth helped establish the Iowa School for the Deaf. John Flournoy helped establish the Georgia School for the Deaf. References Jump up ^ Camp, Ted. `` Deaf Timelines : History and Heritage '', http://www.silentwordministries.org, Jan. 2011 ; Loth, Calder, ed. Virginia Landmarks Register, 4th edition, Univ. of Va. Press, 1999. Jump up ^ Dewey, John. 1917. Address, in : Proceedings of the Twenty - First Meeting of the American Instructors of the Deaf, '' p. 50 Jump up ^ Gallaudet, Edward M. ( 1886 ). `` History of the education of the deaf in the United States ''. American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb. 31 ( 2 ) : 130 -- 47. Jump up ^ Gannon, Jack. 1981. Deaf Heritage -- A Narrative History of Deaf America, Silver Spring, MD : National Association of the Deaf, p. 16 ( PDF Archived 2012 - 03 - 28 at the Wayback Machine. ) Jump up ^ Buchanan, Bob ( ed. ), `` Gaillard in America -- Portrait of the Deaf Community, 1917 '', p. 172 ( Link to Google Books ) Jump up ^ National Theater of the Deaf ( US ) : NTD moves to ASD in West Hartford, CT ( 2004 ) ; NTD / ASD press release : NTD moves to ASD campus Jump up ^ Edmund Booth. Gupress.gallaudet.edu. Retrieved on 2013 - 08 - 02. External links Connecticut portal Schools portal Disability portal Official ASD website History page on the ASD website Camp Isola Bella on the ASD website `` A Brief History Of The American Asylum, At Hartford, For The Education And Instruction Of The Deaf And Dumb '' Third Report of the Directors and Officers 1819 Fourth Report of the Directors and Officers 1820 Fifth Report of the Directors and Officers 1821 Eighth Report of the Directors and Officers 1824 Fourteenth Report of the Directors and Officers 1830 Fifteenth Report of the Directors and Officers 1831 Eighteenth Report of the Directors and Officers 1834 Nineteenth Report of the Directors and Officers 1835 Twentieth Report of the Directors and Officers 1836 Twenty - second Report of the Directors and Officers 1838 Twenty - third Report of the Directors and Officers 1839 Twenty - fifth Report of the Directors and Officers 1841 Twenty - sixth Report of the Directors and Officers 1842 Twenty - seventh Report of the Directors and Officers 1843 Twenty - ninth Report of the Directors and Officers 1845 Thirtieth Report of the Directors and Officers 1846 Thirty - second Report of the Directors and Officers 1848 Forty - first Report of the Directors and Officers 1857 Forty - second Report of the Directors and Officers 1858 Fifty - fourth Report of the Directors and Officers 1870 Fifty - fifth Report of the Directors and Officers 1871 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_School_for_the_Deaf&oldid=864208184 '' Categories : Schools for the deaf in the United States Public elementary schools in Connecticut Schools in Hartford County, Connecticut Educational institutions established in 1817 Buildings and structures in West Hartford, Connecticut Public high schools in Connecticut Deaf culture in the United States Public middle schools in Connecticut Schools in Connecticut 1817 establishments in Connecticut Hidden categories : All articles with dead external links Articles with dead external links from October 2018 Articles with permanently dead external links Webarchive template wayback links Articles needing additional references from July 2009 All articles needing additional references Coordinates on Wikidata Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Français Edit links This page was last edited on 15 October 2018, at 19 : 58 ( UTC ). 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Question: who established the first public school for deaf in america
Answer: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet