Facts and opinions relating to the deaf from America.

Date:
1888
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Credit: Facts and opinions relating to the deaf from America. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1. Visible fiFEmcii—(_oo7itinued). Name of Institution 3. St. John's Catholic In- stitution. 4. Frederick Knapp In- stitution. 5. Voice and Hearing School. 6. Mary Garrett's School, 7. Maria Consi- lialnstitute. 8. Cincinnati Oral School. 9. Chicago Ca- tholic Sch. Miss Keel- er's Class. Cathedral Catholic School. 10 11 o a u a 3 CO ^ Yes No. Yes. Yes. No. Yes No. (o) If not, what cause do you assign for its discontinuance ? Q-EimiAi, Remauks Used only in special class.- LEK, President. -Chaeles Fess- Frederick Knapp, Principal. No reply to cir- cular letter received to date, June 2, 1888. Mary McCowen, Principal. No reply to this question. I studied visible speech with great pleasure to myself, and consider the symbols much 'superior to our English alphabet in that they represent the sounds as they are in words, while the names of the letters of the alphabet (with the exception of the long sounds of the vowels) are so different from their power in words. I do not use it with deaf pupDs, because I want to teach them to understand the text in common use (faulty though it is) as early in their training as possible. I obviate the difficulty of there being several sounds for each vowel by teaching them their appropriate diacritical marks as soon as they begin to learn to write, so that they soon learn their different sounds. I also caU their attention to the silent letters found in words. — Maey S. Gakeett, PrincijJal. Eight pupils receive instruction in it for one hour daily.—Sistee Adele, Principal. Cath. Westendorf, Principal. No reply to cir- cular letter received to date, June 2, 1888. No reply to circular letter received to date, June 2, 1888. Sarah Warren Keeler, Principal. No reply to this question. We do not employ visible speech, nor have we tried the auricular method. Our course of in.struction is the same as that pursued at the Philadelphia Institute, except that we, for want of means, do not teach articulation or give industrial training.—E. P. Clbakt, Pnnoi^al,