A voice from the dumb : a memoir of John William Lashford, late a pupil in the Brighton and Sussex Institution for the Deaf and Dumb / By William Sleight, Master of the Institution.

  • Sleight, William.
Date:
1849
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A voice from the dumb : a memoir of John William Lashford, late a pupil in the Brighton and Sussex Institution for the Deaf and Dumb / By William Sleight, Master of the Institution. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I have seen two children from the same family who were able to converse with each other, previous to having had any instruction, almost as quickly as two with all their faculties. Natural signs, or mimic language, is so much delighted in by the Deaf and Dumb, that unless it were in some measure restrained, it would become their only mode of communication. The great object and the greatest difficulty the teacher has, is to give his pupils a know- ledge of written language, and to train up and educate him generally, so that he may go forth into the world possessed of a channel of intercourse with his fellow creatures, and prepared to meet those vicissitudes to which all are subject in this changeable and ever changing world; and above all, to point his steps to that Saviour who when he was upon earth not only gave speech to the Dumb and hearing to the Deaf, but who also said, “ I go to prepare a place for you; that where I am, there ye may be also.” Again, there are those who think that the Deaf and Dumb have only to learn the manual alphabet and the mechanical art of writing in order to be able to communicate, and they will i
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