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Jean Massieu

Page history last edited by Jennifer Lowe 14 years, 9 months ago

Jean Massieu was born in France in 1772. He was one of six children. All of his siblings were deaf.

At first, Jean Massieu was denied schooling because of his deafness. Eventually, Abbe Sicard who ran the Beordeaux

school for deaf children found out about Jean Massieu's dilema and enrolled him in the school.

 

Massieu was a very dedicated student and learned quickly. Jean Massieu learned how to read and write the French languge.

In fact, when Abbe Sicard was appointed to be the headmaster of the National Institution for the Deaf in Paris in 1789, Sicard

took Massieu with him and gave him a teaching position at the school. Just as Sicard taught Massieu how to read and write,

Massieu taught Abbe Sicard how to sign. Due to Jean Massieu's contributions in helping Abbe Sicard create a system of signs,

he is considered to be a coinventor of Sicard's famous systems of signs for educating deaf children.

 

After Sicard's death in 1822, Jean Massieu became his successor. Due to a scandal, he eventually left Paris

and started working at a school for the deaf in Rodez.  He dedicated most of his life to the education of deaf students.

Many of his students became teachers and/or headmasters of schools. Laurent Clerc was was one of Massieu's students, who

later met up with Thomas Gallaudet and helped him to establish a school for the deaf in America. 

 

Jean Massieu is considered to be one of the pioneers in the field of deaf education.

 

References

Cerc, Laurent (n.d.). Jean Massieu. Retrieved from: http://library.gallaudet.edu/Documents/Academic/ATLAS/Library/Massieub.pdf on July 3, 2009.

Irvine, P. (1988). Jean Massieu (1772-1846). Journal of Special Education, 22(1), p.8.

 

Posted by Jennifer Lowe on July 4, 2009. 

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