American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb Volume 28.cConvention Of American Dumb
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Author: Convention Of American Dumb
Page Count: 112 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781236165572
File size: 24 Mb
Download Link: American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb Volume 28
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...I kept up the practice of writing to him, as before, but required him to spell the words upon his hand while I wrote them on the board. He soon became so expert that he couldispell faster than I could write, and often finished his sentence by guessing what I was going to add before I had written more than twothirds. When this stage had been reached I often used the manual alphabet with him, instead of writing. I took his hand in mine and touched the places of the letters upon his hand. He did not require to look; he could feel where he was touched. He recognized the words in this way, however rapidly I spelled them upon his hand. As I had five fingers, I could touch five letters simultaneously, if I so desired, and a little practice enabled me to play upon his hand as one would play upon the keys of a piano, and quite as rapidly., I could also give emphasis by pressure upon the fingers, and group the words together as they would be grouped in utter ance, leaving pauses, here and there, corresponding to the pauses made in actual speech. The more I used with him this means of communication the more I rejoiced in the fact that I had decided to employ an alphabet addressed to the sense of touch, instead of sight. It left his eye free to observe the expression of my face and the actions and objects which formed the subject of our conversation. The general principle upon which I was working was to speak to him by written words, as I would have spoken to a hearing child by speech, and I believed (with George Dalgarno) that he would in time come to understand written language by the same process that children learn to understand their mother tongue. It seemed to me that hearing children, in acquiring their vernacular, derived great assistance from the free use of t...
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