Notes and observations upon the education of the deaf, with a revised index to education of deaf children: / by Joseph Claybaugh Gordon.

  • Gordon, Joseph Claybaugh, 1842-1903.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Notes and observations upon the education of the deaf, with a revised index to education of deaf children: / by Joseph Claybaugh Gordon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NUMBER AND PER(JENT. OF THE OONGENITALLY DEAF. • Name of School. Total enrollment cousidered. Number deaf from birth. Percentage deaf from birth. 147 37 25. 1,886 490 26. 350 92 26.2 461 123 26.6 (63 years) 2,348 682 29. 521 157 30. 272 88 28.5 280 87 30.4 307 108 32. N. Y. Inst, for Improved Instruction... 184 65 35.2 100 46 46. (recent 100) 100 41 41. [United States Censiis, 1880] 22,473 12,155 54 In contrast with these figures, the Margate, England, Institution, in 1889, reported 71.3 per cent, born deaf, out of a total of 350 cases, and fifteen European countries report 3,465, or 67 per cent., as born deaf, out of 5,171 cases reported. Though the exact proportion of adventitious, or ac- quired, cases of deafness in our schools is unknown, it appears probable that in recent years about 66 per cent, of the pupils were not born deaf, and a large percentage of these acquired colloquial language, as commonly used by children at least, before the loss of their hearing. Undoubtedly the majority of these are fit subjects for special schools ; but it must be remem- bered that upon this foundation it is comparatively easy