{"id":4126,"date":"2026-04-15T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4126"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:30:15","slug":"american-school-for-the-deaf-founded-in-1817","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4126","title":{"rendered":"American School for the Deaf Founded in 1817"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>American School for the Deaf<\/strong> (originally called the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons) was founded in Hartford, Connecticut. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc started the school, still thriving, in 1817. Children can learn more about the history of education for the deaf at the school\u2019s website at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asd-1817.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.asd-1817.org\/<\/a>. Children can learn more about American Sign Language at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handspeak.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.handspeak.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American School for the Deaf (originally called the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons) was founded in Hartford, Connecticut. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc started the school, still thriving, in 1817. Children can learn more about the history of education for the deaf at the school\u2019s website at: <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4126' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4462,2558,5473,1989,2559,2560,2562,2561],"class_list":["post-4126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4462","tag-american-school-for-the-deaf","tag-april-15","tag-connecticut","tag-connecticut-asylum-for-the-education-and-instruction-of-deaf-and-dumb-persons","tag-hartford","tag-laurent-clerc","tag-thomas-hopkins-gallaudet","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4126"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21041,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126\/revisions\/21041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}