Roch-Ambroise Auguste Bébian

Roch-Ambroise Auguste Bébian (French: [ʁɔk ɑ̃bʁwaz oɡyst bebjɑ̃]; 4 August 1789 – 24 February 1839) was one of the first hearing educators in France to achieve native-level fluency in French Sign Language. In 1825, he published an important book, Mimographie, which utilized a method of writing signs.

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