Jabbar Baghtcheban

Jabbar Baghtcheban, born Mirza Jabbar Asgarzadeh and also spelled Baghcheban, was an Iranian educator and inventor. He is well known for establishing the first Iranian kindergarten and the first school for deaf children in Tabriz, so his work opened both early childhood education and deaf education in Iran. He also invented Persian language cued speech, a system of hand cues that supports speech. He was the father of the Iranian composer Samin Baghcheban, and he had three children in total.