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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    mental system. And, finally, let me say I am very glad you have accepted the invitation to appear before the Commission, and if I can serve you, or the work rather, in any way, please let me know it. Excuse delay in answering your note and present haste. ' Yours truly, 'J. C. Gordon.' 'Nebraska Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, Omaha, Neb.: ' February 15, 1888. ' My dear Professor,—I owe you an apology for not replying sooner, but I seemed to be so busy, I did not get round to it. As to aural work, there is nothing new to say. It is a fact, and, as an established fact, has become a part of our regular school work. I enclose a paper by Mrs. W. E. Taylor (Miss Plum) which will give you an idea of what she thinks. She has been our aural teacher for four years, and knows what she is talking about. I have had no reason to modify my views with reference to this matter as yet. Everything I see in connection with it but confirms me in the opinion that all semi-deaf children should be taught by this method, and also that the percentage of pupils that can be instructed this way will not fall below that we have already suggested.—Very truly, ' J. A. Gillespie. ' Professor H. C. Gordon, Washington, D.C By Mrs. W. E. Taylor (formerly Miss Plum). ' Aural work has been so long an established fact that the history of the past three years presents few new features and gives the results of few new experiments, but is merely a con- tinuation and elaboration of the work begun five years ago. ' During these three years we have had twenty-one pupils under this instruction. Of these, one was removed to enter the public schools, and others to different States, leaving us sixteen