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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    ' Have had two cases in wliich I considered there was real increase of hearing power, both quite marked—one due to the removal of a large mass of hardened wax from the ear, and the other to increased bodily vigour (the result, no doubt, of more active exercise and regular habits). ^Apparent improvement in hearing is usually increase in knowledge, due to cultivation of (1) attention and accurate (2) perception of sounds, that without training were but disturling noises, if heard at all. ' I have only one pupil who appears to be in the least bene- fited by the audiphone. ' The London Dome is a favourite with all who hear ivhen listening to music. The flexible ear-tubes are relied on for conversation when any instrument is used. ' 1. Will further add : the only means of communication used in our home or school is idiomatic English. ' 2. All class instruction is given through lip-reading, as there are some in every class who are totally deaf, and those who hear most hear not enough to dispense with lip-reading. ' 3. Aural instruction is special, and given individually or introduced in their games, and the pupils helped to use each other's hearing, &c., &c. ' 4. All hand work—Kindergarten, drawing, painting, model- ling, type-setting, and wood-carving (in all of which boys and girls engage together with equal success), are used as a means of recreation and as a pleasurable incentive to speech as well as for the hand and eye training. ' Have tabulated answers to your remaining questions, which I hope will be available. ' Very respectfully, ' Mary McCowen. 'Mr. Alexander Graham Bell, Washington, D.C D