Compose a 1250 words assignment on history of the american sign language. Gallaudet became acquainted with prominent deaf educators in Europe: Laurent Clerc, Jean Massieu, and Abbe Sicard. Gallaudet tried to learn the teaching strategies of these educators. When he was preparing to return to America, he invited Clerc to come with him. Gallaudet realized that Clerc would greatly contribute to the establishment of deaf education in the United States. Clerc accepted the offer (Nickens 2008). Their school, which is currently recognized as the American School for the Deaf, was established in 1817 in Hartford, Connecticut. This was a grand landmark in the history of American Deaf education. The school progressed rapidly. Deaf students from America who attended the school carried with them sign systems from home. ASL originated from these sign systems and from the French Sign Language that Clerc lectured to Gallaudet (Nickens 2008). Until today deaf schools all over the United States use the deaf education principles and strategies of Clerc. The basically unavoidable consequent disagreement between advocates of ASL and English-based signs has been viewed as ‘unique’, while the 18th and 19th centuries in France and 19th century in the U.S. are stuffed with phases of disagreement between ‘methodical’ and ‘natural’ sign systems (Paul 2008). Because American teachers of students with hearing impairment have been consumed with the debate between ‘manualism’ and ‘oralism’, according to Grayson (2003), there is inadequate knowledge of the fact that the conflict between English-based signs and ASL in the U.S. heralds the oral-manual conflict and sometimes has been even more hostile.