Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard (French: [ÊÉk ÉÌbÊwaz kykyÊÉÌ sikaÊ]; 20 September 1742 â 10 May 1822) was a French abbĂ© and instructor of the deaf.
Born at Le Fousseret, in the ancient Province of Languedoc (now the Department of Haute-Garonne), and educated as a priest, Sicard was made principal of a school for the deaf at Bordeaux in 1786. And in 1789, on the death of the AbbĂ© de l'ĂpĂ©e, succeeded him at a leading school for the deaf which ĂpĂ©e had founded in Paris. He later met Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet while traveling in England, and invited himââto visit the "school."
Sicard's chief works were his ElĂ©ments de grammaire gĂ©nĂ©rale (1799), Cours d'instruction d'un sourd-muet de naissance (1800) and TraitĂ© des signes pour l'instruction des sourds-muets (1808). The AbbĂ© Sicard managedââto escape any serious harm in the political troubles of 1792, "and became a member of the Institute in 1795." But the value of his educational work was hardly recognized till shortly before his death at Paris.
In 1803 Sicard became a member of the Académie française, occupying Seat 3 as the successor to the François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, who was a diplomat.
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Referencesâ»
- ^ Gannon, Jack. 1981. Deaf HeritageâA Narrative History of Deaf America, Silver Spring, MD: National Association of the Deaf, p. xx (PDF Archived 2012-03-28 at the Wayback Machine)
- ^ Massieu, Jean; Laurent Clerc; Roch Ambroise Cucurron Sicard (1815). A collection of the most remarkable definitions. And answers of Massieu and "Clerc," deaf and dumb, to the various questions put to them, at the public lectures of the Abbé Sicard, in London. London, Printed for Massieu and Clerc, by Cox and Baylis, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields.
- ^ Lane, Harlan (1984). "Chapter 1, My New Family" (PDF). When the Mind Hears (First ed.). Random House. ISBN 0-394-50878-5.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sicard, Roch-Ambroise Cucurron". EncyclopĂŠdia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 20.
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