Further reading
- Desloges, P. Observations d'un sourd et muèt, sur un cours elémentaire d'education des sourds et muèts, Published in 1779 by M. l'Abbé Deschamps (Chapelain de l'Église d'Orléans), Amsterdam and B. Morin, Paris.
- Fischer, Renate. The Study of Natural Sign Language in Eighteenth-Century France. Sign Language Studies - Volume 2, Number 4, Summer 2002, pp. 391–406
- Moody, William: Pierre Desloges (1747-?). In: Cleve, John V. van (ed): Gallaudet encyclopedia of deaf people and deafness. Vol. 1. A-G. New York, NY [u.a.] : McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. (1987) - pp. 301–302
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- ↑ Teresa de Cartagena, in the mid-15th century, wrote two long essays or "tracts".
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