Progress in the amelioration of certain forms of deafness and impaired hearing / by J.C. Gordon.

  • Gordon, Joseph Claybaugh, 1842-1903.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Progress in the amelioration of certain forms of deafness and impaired hearing / by J.C. Gordon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    23 [Dr. Gordon: The teacher sits before the class, talks to the class, tells stories, and asks questions. They sit with their little books open and write, and are expeded to speak all that the teacher says. 1 prefer that they should both speak and write what they see upon the lips. It is a record of their lip-reading. In some cases they have not given every word, or have made mistakes which have been underscored. They are not always required to get the word the first time, but their time is limited. Some words might have been .repeated two or three times. It is taken from the lips. Do you think it is very cold for the first day of summer.^ (Reading June First.) That was read in one exercise from the teacher's lips in Miss Kershner's second year.] [A voice: Sentence-by sentence.?] [Dr. Gordon: Generally sentence by sentence, sometimes word by word, and sometimes right ahead. Of course this could not have been given right off.] [June 8. Reading from the MSS.] This is from Emma Kershner's exercises. If time permitted 1 should like to run over some other lip-reading by some who have had more pradice and knowledge of speech than she. [Dr. Bell: I understand that these you have read are ?] [Dr. Gordon: Grown-up deaf-mutes without previous in- struftion in speech and lip-reading.] Let me call your attention to something I fiiiled to present yesterday. I had the promise from Dr. Lucien Howe of Buffalo of a collection of ear-bones. But he disappointed me, and sent me photographs instead. 1 suppose he knew the reputation of Chautauqua, and was afraid to trust those valuables on these grounds. Here are photographs of the ear-bones of man, the whale, the elephant, etc., which you can examine at your lei- sure, and return to me if you please. I am obliged to you. (Applause).