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* Cuxac, Christian. 1983. [http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3Alangage+des+sourds+au%3Acuxac&qt=notfound_page&search=Search <i>Le langage des sourds</i>]. Paris: Payo
* Cuxac, Christian. 1983. [http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3Alangage+des+sourds+au%3Acuxac&qt=notfound_page&search=Search <i>Le langage des sourds</i>]. Paris: Payo

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Roch-Ambroise-Auguste Bébian
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Born(1789-08-04)August 4, 1789
Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe
DiedFebruary 24, 1839(1839-02-24) (aged 49)
Pointe-à-Pitre

Roch-Ambroise Auguste Bébian (b. August 4, 1789 at Pointe-à-Pitre (also written: Ponte-à-Pitre), Guadeloupe; d. February 24, 1839 Pointe-à-Pitre) was one of the first hearing educators in France to achieve native-level fluency in French Sign Language. He wrote an important book titled "Mimographie," which was published in 1822, which utilized a method of writing signs.

From the Carribbean Island of Guadeloupe, his father sent him to live in France to obtain a high-school education under the auspices of his godfather, the Abbé Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard, who was the successor of the Abbé de l'Epée as the director of the Institution Nationale des Sourds-Muets de Paris. The Abbé Sicard put him under the tutelage of the Abbé Jauffret. He completed high school at the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris where he was regarded as a brilliant student, after which he dedicated himself to studying Deaf education.

He followed the advice of Abbé Sicard and began working with three Deaf teachers: Jean Massieu, Ferdinand Berthier und Laurent Clerc, at the Institution Nationale des Sourds-Muets de Paris, and wrote a book titled "Essai sur les sourds-muets et sur le langage naturel," which was published in 1817, that dealt with the educational philosophy and methods of the school, as well as the nature of French Sign Language.

He turned down offers to become principals of schools for the Deaf in New York City and also St. Petersburg, and set up at school on Montparnasse Boulevard in Paris. Later he became principal of a school in Rouen and then moved back to Guadeloupe, where he founded a school for black students.

He won an award from the French Academy of Sciences for writing the 1819 book "Eloge historique de l'abbé de l'Epée."

References

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Works about Bébian:

  • Bernard, Yves. 1992. La Mimographie de Bébian (1789-1839) - Le signe est l'ombre de l'idée. In: La Caravelle, Volume 118 (1992), pp. 15-17. Also in: Liaisons: Bulletin du Centre National de Formation des Enseignants Intervenants auprès des Jeunes Sourds (CNFEJS), Volume 7, December 1995, pp. 34-64
  • Berthier, Ferdinand. 1911. Biographie de Bébian, published in serial in Le Colonial (a journal published in Guadeloupe) on May 17, 24 and 31 and June 14, 1911.
  • Renard, Marc. 2004. Ecrire les signes: La mimogaphie d'Auguste Bébian et les notations contemporaines. París: Éditions du Fox


Other works which contain information about Bébian:

  • Lane, Harlan. "Chapter 1, My New Family". When the Mind Hears (First ed.). Random House. ISBN 0394508785. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)