Blind Deaf (1904) (14769151142)

Identifier: blinddeaf00will (find matches)
Title: Blind Deaf
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: William Wade
Subjects: Deafblindness
Publisher: Hecker Brothers
Contributing Library: American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., M. C. Migel Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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y the public, and par-ticularly by State boards of education, that it is theduty of the States to educate these unfortunates.If a special school, under the charge of two suchdistinguished personages, is required to educatethe blind-deaf, good-bye to all hopes of the Statesundertaking it. The chances of getting public con-tributions to a fund which must provide an incomeof $25,000 or $30,000 per year are very unpromising.As for the training school, only the small boys,with their significant Rats! can do justice to theproposition. A new teacher is required only semi-occasionally, and it would be a pretty show to havea school turning out teachers regularly and thenhave these teachers waiting for something to turnup in their line. I have said my say, and I now turn your readersover to Mrs. Barretts plain statements, merely say-ing that she most thoroly understands what shewrites about. That she is brilliant in her plaincommon sense, I do not think readers of her articleneed to be told. 66
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RUBY RICE (with MRS. BARRETT). CLASSES OF THE BLIND-DEA F AND THEIR EDUCATION The Blind-Deaf (Mrs. E. M. Barrett in The School Journal ) That the blind-deaf are capable of receiving- aneducation is now no longer a matter of question.The specific kind of education I have in mind is thedevelopment brought about by the acquisition ofideas to meet the vicissitudes of life and the manualtraining necessary for carrying out some of theseideas in the struggle for existence. A few blind-deafhave attracted attention by reason of their poetic,scientific and linguistic abilities ; others have de-served notice thru their quiet domestic qualities,purity and nobility of character. The tendency onthe part of the public in general, and professionalsin particular, to make the few the standard forall is a most unjust decree toward those less gifted,less favored by environment, and more deeply af-flicted by deprivation of the senses from birth. Irefer to the congenital blind-deaf. The blind-deaf fall nat