l'Épée took a different approach to his life and started helping out the less fortunate. He was introduced to two French girls and their mother who wanted him to instruct them about religion. When he discovered that they were both deaf, he dedicated his whole life to educating them.

How did De L Epee teach deaf students to read?

The Instructional Method of Signs is an educational method that emphasised using gestures or hand signs, based on the principle that "the education of deaf mutes must teach them through the eye of what other people acquire through the ear." He recognised that there was already a signing deaf community in Paris but saw ...

Who is known as the father of deaf education?

The Abbe Charles-Michel De L'Epee, the "Father of the Deaf." founded the Institut National des Jeune Sourds-Muets, Clerc's very first school.