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About Charles-Michel de l'Épée
Charles-Michel de l'Épée was an 18th-century French Catholic priest and philanthropic educator who advocated for sign language as the preferred method of teaching deaf people, and has become known as the "Father of the Deaf". He founded the Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris, the first public school for the deaf, in 1760.
Everything about Charles-Michel de l'Épée →- Occupation
- presbyter, educator, pedagogue
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- November 24, 1712, November 12, 1712
- Died
- December 23, 1789