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Douglas Craig -Black Deaf Caretaker of Gallaudet.

Abbé Sicard developed a system of presentations, some on the road, to appeal to those with wealth to contribute to this important endeavor.

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Abbé Sicard was a French revolutionary priest and an innovator of French and American sign language.

Abbe Sicard, the director, and the teachers at the Institut Royal des Sourds-Muets in Paris, France used French Sign Language at their school.

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Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard

French abbé and instructor of the deaf

Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard (French:[ʁɔkɑ̃bʁwazkykyʁɔ̃sikaʁ]; 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 I