Chapter 4 :)

For Hearing People Only Chapter 4                                                            

Abbe de L'Eppe is so important to ASL because he was "the first hearing person to learn from the deaf. He went into the deaf community"to learn it's language, to let deaf people teach him." He founded the world's first free public school for the deaf. Abbe Roach- Ambroise is also known for going into the deaf community, he was "the first known educator to bother to learn from the deaf themselves." Abbe went on to write a two volume book on deaf education, which was adapted for American use. 
Without these great men who knows if ASL as we know it (or are learning) would even exist!