After teaching at the Institut National des Jeune Sourds-Muets for nearly ten years, and teaching the highest class at the institution, Thomas Gallaudet invited him to go to America with him and help establish a school for the deaf. Though Gallaudet didn’t know sign and Clerc didn’t know English, they both managed to tutor each other while on their 52 day voyage to America enough to communicate. Evidence had later shown that Clerc indeed knew how to write in English given that his journal was entirely in English during their voyage. After arriving in Hartford, Conneticut on August 22, 1816, Thomas Gallaudet introduced Laurent Clerc to Alice Cogswell. Clerc and Cogswell communicated with synonymity of signs, motivating Clerc to teach the deaf in America by seeing the intelligence in the young Alice Cosgwell and her hunger for knowledge. For 6 months Clerc, and Gallaudet and occasionally Alice’s father Dr. Cogswell made many efforts to get funding and support for their …show more content…
Demonstrating teaching methods and delivering many speeches in New York, New Jersey, Boston, and other places communicating with prospective students, interviewing parents of deaf children and informing the public; they raised