<Tr> <Th> Mascot </Th> <Td> Tigers </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> Official ASD Website </Td> </Tr> <P> The American School for the Deaf (ASD) is the oldest permanent school for the deaf in the United States . It was founded April 15, 1817, in West Hartford, Connecticut, by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Dr. Mason Cogswell, and Laurent Clerc and became a state - supported school later that year . It was also the second and present site of Hubbard's school . </P> <P> The first deaf school in the United States was short - lived: established in 1815 by Col. William Bolling of Goochland, Virginia, in nearby Cobbs, with John Braidwood (tutor of Bolling's two deaf children) as teacher, it closed in the fall of 1816 . </P>

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