Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard
Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard (20 September 1742 – 10 May 1822) was a French abbé 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 Abbé de l'Épée, succeeded him at a leading school for the deaf which Épée had founded in Paris. He later met Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet while traveling in England,[1][2] and invited him to visit the school.
Sicard's chief works were his Eléments de grammaire générale (1799), Cours d'instruction d'un sourd-muet de naissance (1800) and Traité des signes pour l'instruction des sourds-muets (1808). The Abbé Sicard managed to 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.[3]
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.
See also
Works
- Manuel de l'enfance, contenant des élémens de lecture et des dialogues instructifs et moraux (1797)
- Cours d'instruction d'un sourd-muet de naissance, pour servir à l'éducation des sourds-muets et qui peut être utile à celle de ceux qui entendent et qui parlent (1803)
- Abrégé de la Grammaire générale de M. Sicard, ou Leçons élémentaires de langue française et de grammaire générale (1806)
- Élémens de grammaire générale appliqués à la langue française (1808; 2 volumes)
- Théorie des signes, pour l'instruction des sourds-muets, suivie d'une notice sur l'enfance de Massieu (1808)
- Théorie des signes pour servir d'introduction à l'étude des langues, où le sens des mots, au lieu d'être défini, est mis en action (1814)
- Mémoires sur les journées de septembre 1792 (1823)
- Méthode raisonnée pour apprendre à lire (1846)
References
- ↑ Gannon, Jack. 1981. Deaf Heritage–A Narrative History of Deaf America, Silver Spring, MD: National Association of the Deaf, p. xx (PDF Archived 2012-03-28 at the Wayback Machine)
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