ASL, the visual language communicating with hand movements, exists because of the historical figures that helped it grow.
Charles-Michel de l’Épée, the 18th-century priest and educator known as the Father of the Deaf, created the world’s first manual sign alphabet.
Listed in My ASL Dictionary’s Deaf History with a short biography of his philanthropic works, a cartoon of Épée illustrates the ASL hand sign for SIGN (the French hand signs he created appearing before the English word).
The index fingers of both 1 hands rotate in alternating circles as they pedal backward.
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