Laurent Clerc
eBook - ePub

Laurent Clerc

The Story of His Early Years

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Laurent Clerc

The Story of His Early Years

About this book

Laurent Clerc won lasting renown as the deaf teacher who helped Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet establish schools to educate deaf Americans in the 19th century. Now, his character as a young boy growing up in Paris has been captured in the novel Laurent Clerc.

In his own voice, Clerc vividly relates the experiences that led to his later progressive teaching methods. Especially influential was his long stay at the Royal National Institute for the Deaf in Paris, where he encountered sharply distinct personalities — the saintly, inspiring deaf teacher Massieu, the vicious Dr. Itard and his heartless "experiments" on deaf boys, and the "Father of the Deaf," Abbe Sicard, who could hardly sign.

Young adult readers will find his story richly entertaining as well as informative.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. 1. “He'll Never Be Right”
  7. 2. Leaving Home
  8. 3. A New Life
  9. 4. Home Again
  10. 5. Pronouns and Printing
  11. 6. The Shepherd Genius
  12. 7. Speech Class
  13. 8. Our Flamboyant Abbé
  14. 9. Public Performances
  15. 10. The Savage
  16. 11. Doctor to the Deaf
  17. 12. Reading More Than Words
  18. 13. Holy Experiences
  19. 14. No Longer a Student
  20. 15. “Deafness Is Nothing”
  21. 16. Why Can't the English . . . ?
  22. 17. The Preacher from America
  23. 18. Leaving St. Jacques?
  24. 19. “Of Course Clerc Must Go”
  25. Afterword