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​​​​​​​Revolution, Reaction, Reform

"Old photo of the outside of the school" The Historical Marker Database

                                 Reform 

With the methods of sign language that was taught being so well made many years later the sign language was reformed and made to fit different places all around the world making the sign language created at the school the overall origin to the sign language known today that is countinuesly being used by millions of Americans every day ("Charles").



   Revolution

Before the school deaf people werre hiden by their families and not treated very well and some people even said they were treated like animals ("Charles Michel de L'Eppe"). Once the school had opened ,because the school was the first of it's kind, it revolutionized deaf education and the incorrect views about people in the deaf communtity ("Abbe de L'Epee 4").


Reaction

Because there had never been a free public school for deaf many people in Paris people had lots of different views and rections to the school because they had been inventing so many new inovations that people didn't think could happen such as sign language ("Charles"). Sign language gave the deaf a chance to communicate and show their skills too which ultimately led to the some of past views about deaf people to be changed ("Charles Michel de L'Epee").