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Laurent Clerc

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Louis Laurent Marie Clerc (26 December 1785 – 18 July 1869) was a French teacher called "The Apostle of the Deaf in America" by generations of American Deaf people. [1]

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Alice Cogswell

Alice Cogswell (August 31, 1805 – December 30, 1830) was the inspiration to Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet for the creation of the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut.

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American manual alphabet

The American Manual Alphabet (AMA) is a manual alphabet that augments the vocabulary of American Sign Language.

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American School for the Deaf

The American School for the Deaf (ASD) is the oldest permanent school for the deaf in the United States.

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American Sign Language

American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada.

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Bilingual–bicultural education

Bilingual–Bicultural or BiBi deaf education programs use sign language as the native, or first, language of deaf children.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Deaf culture

Deaf culture is the set of social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values, and shared institutions of communities that are influenced by deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication.

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Emilio Insolera

Emilio Insolera is an Italian actor and producer, known for Sign Gene (2017).

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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French Sign Language

French Sign Language (langue des signes française, LSF) is the sign language of the deaf in France and French-speaking parts of Switzerland.

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Gallaudet University

Gallaudet University is a federally chartered private university for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing.

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Harlan Lane

Harlan Lane (born 19 August 1936) is an American psychologist.

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Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Hearing loss

Hearing loss, also known as hearing impairment, is a partial or total inability to hear.

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Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris

Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris (National Institute for Deaf Children of Paris) is the current name of the school for the Deaf founded by Charles-Michel de l'Épée, in stages, between 1750 and 1760 in Paris, France.

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Isère

Isère (Arpitan: Isera, Occitan: Isèra) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France named after the river Isère.

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Jean Massieu

Jean Massieu (1772 – July 21, 1846) was a pioneering deaf educator.

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Journal of Special Education

Journal of Special Education is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Education.

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La Balme

La Balme is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.

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La Balme-les-Grottes

La Balme-les-Grottes is a commune in the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France.

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Laurent Clerc Award

The Laurent Clerc Award is an annual honor bestowed by Gallaudet University's Alumni Association to recognize a deaf person for "his or her outstanding contributions to society," and specifically to honor their achievements in the interest of deaf people.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Roch-Ambroise Auguste Bébian

Roch-Ambroise Auguste Bébian (b. August 4, 1789 at Pointe-à-Pitre (also written: Ponte-à-Pitre), Guadeloupe; d. February 24, 1839 Pointe-à-Pitre) was one of the first hearing educators in France to achieve native-level fluency in French Sign Language.

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Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard

Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard (20 September 1742 – 10 May 1822) was a French abbé and instructor of the deaf.

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Sign Gene

Sign Gene is a 2017 superhero film written, produced, and directed by Emilio Insolera.

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Sign language

Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use manual communication to convey meaning.

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Superhuman

Superhuman qualities are qualities that exceed those found in humans.

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Teacher

A teacher (also called a school teacher or, in some contexts, an educator) is a person who helps others to acquire knowledge, competences or values.

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The Games Machine

The Games Machine was a video game magazine that was published from 1987 until 1990 in the United Kingdom by Newsfield, which also published CRASH, Zzap!64, Amtix! and other magazines.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

The Reverend Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, LL.D., (December 10, 1787 – September 10, 1851) was an American deaf educator.

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Tokyo Journal

Tokyo Journal is an English-language quarterly magazine about Tokyo and Japan, which was established in 1981.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_Clerc

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