Clerc: The Story of His Early Years

By Cathryn Carroll

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0930323238
• ISBN13: 9780930323233
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.3" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12

Customer Reviews

Richly entertaining story

A great story about the deaf teacher who establish schools to educate deaf Americans

Quick, easy read, relatively uninformative

Laurent Clerc was the person responsible for Deaf education in the United States. This book gives a fictionalized account of his early life, from growing up in revolution era France up to when he was about to leave to America. The book is fairly entertaining, and very easy and quick to read. However, many details that would interest the reader are left out, like Clerc's relationship to his mother. Though Carroll successfully portrays some of the hardships of life as a Deaf person, you really don't get much else out of this book.