Sign of the Day for Wednesday, December 3, 2025

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Featured Person: Laurent Clerc was born in December. This week is also recognized as Clerc Gallaudet Week to celebrate the first two visionary leaders in the field of American Deaf Education who were born in December: Laurent Clerc on December 26, 1785 and Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet on December 10, 1787 (Clerc Gallaudet Week is the first full week in December).

LAURENT CLERC

(as in "the apostle of the Deaf in America")

What is being signed (English Meaning)

LAURENT CLERC (as in "the apostle of the Deaf in America")

Sign Type
  • ASL
Sign Description

Dominant hand in Open H Handshape, fingers brush across upper dominant cheek.

Memory Aid

Clerc had a scar on his cheek.

This Sign is Used to Say (Sign Synonyms)
  • LAURENT CLERC (as in "the apostle of the Deaf in America")
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English Sentence

Laurent Clerc is one of the founders of the first school for the deaf here in America.

ASL Gloss

LAURENT CLERC WHO? ONE FOUNDER FIRST DEAF SCHOOL HERE AMERICA.

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