item: #1 of 5 id: 13014 author: Amman, Johann Conrad title: The Talking Deaf Man A Method Proposed, Whereby He Who is Born Deaf, May Learn to Speak date: None words: 10047 flesch: 78 summary: just as _j._ is to [_i._] for indeed _a. u. w._ are formed, when the _Teeth_ and _ It is no wonder therefore, if _Voice_ be natural to a Man, though he be _Deaf_, because _Deaf Men_ keywords: breath; deaf; letters; mouth; persons; teeth; tongue; voice; vowels cache: 13014.txt plain text: 13014.txt item: #2 of 5 id: 23320 author: Best, Harry title: The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States date: None words: 94432 flesch: 67 summary: | NUMBER | | NUMBER | | TOTAL | | | TAUGHT | | TAUGHT | | NUMBER | NUMBER | | WHOLLY | | WHOLLY | YEAR | OF | TAUGHT | PER | OR | PER | OR | PER | PUPILS | SPEECH | CENT | CHIEFLY | CENT | CHIEFLY BY | CENT The value of this industrial preparation of the schools in the after lives of the deaf has already been referred to.[565] The following table will show the number and percentage of the pupils in the several kinds of schools in industrial departments, according to the Report of the United States Commissioner of Education for 1911-1912.[566] NUMBER OF PUPILS IN INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENTS IN SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF -----------------------------------+--------+-----------+---------- | TOTAL |NUMBER IN | KIND OF SCHOOL | NUMBER |INDUSTRIAL | PER CENT | |DEPARTMENTS| -----------------------------------+--------+-----------+---------- Institutions | 11,244 | 6,203 | 55.2 Day Schools | 1,928 | 662 | 34.3 Denominational and Private Schools | 518 | 196 | 37.8 +--------+-----------+---------- Total | 13,690 | 7,061 | 51.8 In all the schools there are 403 industrial instructors, 373 being in institutions.[567] The industries taught in the schools, as given in the _Annals_,[568] are as follows: keywords: -| -|; age; aid; american; annals; association; blind; board; cases; census; cent; charities; children; city; class; connection; day schools; deaf; deafness; diseases; education; extent; fever |; general; hearing; home; institution; instruction; land; laws; means; mutes |; national; new; new york; number |; ohio; oral; parents; pennsylvania; persons; population; present; private; proceedings; provision; public; pupils; report; respect; review; school; society; speech; state board; state institution; state school; states; time; united; work; years; york; | -|; | | cache: 23320.txt plain text: 23320.txt item: #3 of 5 id: 29841 author: Roe, W. R. (William Robert) title: Anecdotes & Incidents of the Deaf and Dumb date: None words: 29988 flesch: 76 summary: Deaf and Dumb men have a poor chance in Texas. A blind, deaf, and dumb boy, about fourteen years old, who had had less than a year's instruction, was given an order to count out twenty crayons and put them under a mat. keywords: age; bible; blind; boy; child; children; christ; day; deaf; derby; door; dumb; father; following; friends; girl; god; good; hand; head; home; house; illustration; institution; jesus; lady; life; lord; man; mute; people; school; thought; time; work; world; years cache: 29841.txt plain text: 29841.txt item: #4 of 5 id: 37047 author: None title: The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell A Gentlen, who, tho' Deaf and Dumb, Writes down any Stranger's name at first Sight; with their future Contingencies of Fortune date: None words: 82235 flesch: 51 summary: All his contrivances could not raise him above three thousand men, with whom he encamped in the Isle of Bute, where he was soon, in a manner besieged by the Earl of Dumbarton, with the king's forces, and several other bodies, commanded by the Duke of Gordon, the Marquis of Athol, the Earl of Arran, and other great men, who came from all parts to quench the fire before it grew to a head. No; men, and great men too, and scholars, and even statesmen, and princes themselves, have been tainted with superstitions, and where they infect the minds of such great personages, they make the deeper impression, according to the stronger and more manly ideas they have of them. keywords: account; art; book; boy; campbell; child; company; country; day; death; devil; dumb; duncan; end; father; fortune; genius; gentleman; good; great; hand; head; house; kind; knowledge; lady; life; magic; man; manner; men; mind; mother; nature; people; persons; place; power; present; reader; reason; second; set; sight; sir; spirits; tell; things; thought; time; way; wife; woman; words; world; years; young cache: 37047.txt plain text: 37047.txt item: #5 of 5 id: 42353 author: Sandham, Elizabeth title: Deaf and Dumb! Third Edition date: None words: 12746 flesch: 69 summary: In the course of the next half year, Mr. Beaufort paid a second visit to Mr. Rawlinson; and while there, kindly called on Mrs. Goldsmith with the pleasing intelligence of William's advancement both in speaking, writing, and the business which he was now learning. When Mr. Beaufort returned to town, he took Henry with him for a fortnight's pleasure, and knowing it would be as great a one to him as any, to see William Goldsmith, and the manner in which he was instructed, almost the first place they visited, was the Asylum in which he was placed. keywords: beaufort; children; henry; lucy; mother; pleasure; poor; time; william cache: 42353.txt plain text: 42353.txt