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Deaf people - Means of communication

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    Philocophus, or, The deafe and dumbe mans friend : exhibiting the philosophicall verity of that subtile art, which may inable one with an observant eie, to heare what any man speaks by the moving of his lips : upon the same ground ... that a man borne deafe and dumbe, may be taught to heare the sound of words with his eie, & thence learne to speake with his tongue / by I.B., sirnamed the Chirosopher.

    J. B. (John Bulwer), 1606-1656 | Date: 1648
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    Elements of speech : an essay of inquiry into the natural production of letters : with an Appendix concerning persons deaf & dumb / by William Holder.

    Holder, William, 1616-1698 | Date: 1669
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    A deaf girl using a group hearing aid at a school for the deaf. Photograph by Central Press Photos, 1969.

    | Date: [1969] | Reference: 2141827i
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    Hearing, mother father deaf : hearing people in deaf families / Michele Bishop and Sherry L. Hicks, editors.

    | Date: 2008
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    A pipe designed to communicate sounds to the deaf, being used by a man. Photograph by the Associated Press, 197- (?).

    | Date: [between 1970 and 1979?] | Reference: 2141825i
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