Victor Abbou, still a very active retiree, is a well-known figure in the Deaf community as one of the first activists of the Deaf Reawakening movement in France. He is one of the co-founders of IVT (International Visual Theater), now led by Emmanuelle Laborit, and has had a career as a teacher of French Sign Language (LSF) for future French/LSF interpreters within the association "Deaf Hearing Research Action Communication" (SERAC) at the Paris VIII, Lille III, and Rouen universities. He is also an actor and teacher of workshops and a popular emcee.
