Throughout the trip, Clerc recorded the events of each day, and then Gallaudet corrected his English. Clerc copied the corrected version in his stitched journal. Soon after their arrival in America, Clerc and Gallaudet began raising funds for their new school. In 1817, they announced the opening of the Connecticut Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, the first permanent school for the deaf in America in Hartford, Connecticut. There are a number of communication options for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Important factors are the degree of hearing loss, amount of residual hearing, and age of onset.
The following links focus on sign language, used by most members of the Deaf community. When you visit this site, you can download from any of 5 different fingerspelled fonts. These fonts can be installed and used on your computer. This is an on-line database of French Sign Language. SignStream is a database tool for analysis of linguistic data captured on video, and is being used in this project.