Pedro ponce de leon biography

Pedro de Ponce de Leon was a Benedictine monk who lived in the San Salvador de Ona Monastery near Burgos, where he took his vows in 1526 (Werner, 1932).

(Most records perpetuate the mistake of dating his birth to 1520.)  Of noble lineage himself (the Ponce de Leon family  produced a number of notable people in Spanish history) he became a pioneer teacher of the deaf when he came across two aristocratic deaf boys in the care of the monastery.

Werner (1932, p.

Pedro ponce de leon deaf history

Pedro ponce de leon deaf history

Pedro ponce de leon sign language

Pedro de leon

Pedro Ponce de Leon (not Juan Ponce de Leon, who was the explorer) was a Benedictine monk who established the world's first school for the deaf.

Dom Pedro Ponce de Leon, O.S.B., was a Spanish Benedictine monk who is often credited as being "the first teacher for the deaf".

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Pedro Ponce cannot be depicted as such an encyclopedic genius, as he is usually made out to be. It is equally incorrect to assert that from the very beginning he aimed at teaching the deaf-mutes to speak.

The course of history and his own technique show that chance played a large part and that although this monk undoubtedly possessed a great deal of altruism and didactic skill, his knowledge of deaf-mutism was in many ways inaccurate, which neve