Address Upon the Condition of Articulation Teaching in American Schools for the Deaf

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N. Sawyer & Son, printers, 1893 - 72 páginas
 

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Página 2 - Resolved, That earnest and persistent endeavors should be made in every school for the deaf to teach every pupil to speak and read from the lips...
Página 7 - In some very unpromising cases the possibility of acquiring speech is not given up for two or three years. Here let me say that the criterion of success in speech should not be perfect naturalness of tone and inflection. It would be unreasonable to expect that, where the sense of hearing is wanting. Intelligibility is the prime requisite of good speech. Tone and inflection are secondary considerations. Any pupil who has mastered speech and lip-reading so far as to be able to carry on conversation...
Página 4 - THE total number of teachers of the deaf employed in the United States in 1890 was 641, and in 1891, 686. This is an increase of 45. When we come to analyze the details we find that this is an increase exclusively of articulation teachers. This is shown by the following facts. In 1890, there were 213 articulation teachers employed, whereas, in 1891, there were 260, — an increase of 47 articulation...
Página 62 - Home for the Training in Speech of Deaf Children Before They Are of School Age.
Página 10 - To aid schools for the Deaf in their efforts to teach speech and speech-reading; "By providing schools for the training of articulation teachers; by the employment of an agent or agents who shall...
Página 7 - ... speech-reading to every pupil, and in no case should that effort be abandoned, until those teachers are convinced that the pupil will never acquire enough of speech to be of any practical use. In some very unpromising cases the possibility of acquiring speech is not given up for two or three years. Here let me say that the criterion of success in speech should not be perfect naturalness of tone and inflection. It would be unreasonable to expect that, where the sense of hearing is wanting. Intelligibility...
Página 2 - America to carry out the spirit and purport of that resolution. REPORT ON ARTICULATION TEACHING IN AMERICA. I have made a close examination of the statistics of articulation teaching in order to ascertain how far that resolution has been carried into effect. Great progress is manifest since our last Summer Meeting, but though a great increase has taken place in the number of articulation teachers employed, and in the number of deaf pupils taught articulation, still the majority of our pupils have...
Página 7 - Williams, gives his views upon what consiitut.es success in articulation work. He says, — "We hold that direct and earnest effort should be made by expert teachers of those branches, to teach speech and speech-reading to every pupil, and in no case should that effort be abandoned until those teachers are convinced that the pupil will never acquire enough of speech to be of any practical use. In some very unpromising cases the possibility of acquiring speech is not given up for two or three years.

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