Asl part 1 deaf history pt. 2

Gallaudet met a man named Laurent Clerc who learned Sign Language from Abbe Sicard. Abbe Sicard had taken the place of Abbe de l’Epee and had a student, Laurent Clerc. Louis Laurent Marie Clerc was born in La Balme-les-Grottes in the south of France. When Clerc was a young boy he fell into the kitchen fireplace and severely burned his right cheek. He proceeded to develop a fever and it was later found out that his hearing was affected. Being deaf, Clerc never went to school as a child and therefore never learned to read or write. Be that as it may, his grandfather took pity on him and sent him to Institut National des Jeune Sourds-Muets (translated as the National Institute for Young Deaf-Mutes) founded by the Abbe de l’Epee and directed by the Abbe Sicard. He traveled along with and the Abbe Sicard and lectured about Sign Language at various places—which is where he met Thomas Gallaudet.
Gallaudet learned much from Clerc (whom he immediately befriended) but his funds were running out. He asked Clerc to accompany him back to America, which Clerc readily agreed too after convincing Abbe Sicard to loan him to Gallaudet for two years. And so Sign Language made its way back to America with Clerc and Gallaudet.