English visible speech for the million : for communicating the exact pronunciation of the language to native or foreign learners, and for teaching children and illiterate adults to read in a few days.

  • Alexander Melville Bell
Date:
[1868]
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Credit: English visible speech for the million : for communicating the exact pronunciation of the language to native or foreign learners, and for teaching children and illiterate adults to read in a few days. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    xttit&#wn%l (Suv'L CURE OF STAMMERING, &c. MR. A. MELVILLE BELL, Author of ' Visible Speech, &o. Undertakes the perfect Eradication of Stammering, Stuttering, and all forms of Vocal Impediment. The experience of upwards of Twenty-five years' Practice enables Mr Bell to guarantee the permanent, and, in most cases, the speedy Cure of these distressing affections, in children or adults. Defective A rticulation. The Removal of Lisping, Burring, and other Elementary Defects, rarely requires more than a Single Course of Twelve Lessons. Undeveloped Speech in backward children invariably perfected after a short period of training. Elocution. Clergymen, Barristers, Members of Parliament, and other Public Readers and Speakers, privately instructed in the Principles and Practice of effective Reading and Delivery. Vocal Weakness, Monotony, and all Oratorical Faults, are corrected without any imparted mannerism. Ladies and Non-Professional Pupils receive Special Lessons, according to individual requirements. Mr Bell's Evening Class for Students meets at University College, Gower Street.—[See College Programme of Classes.] Visible Speech. Ladies and Gentlemen (singly, or in private parties) practically instructed in the Physiology of Speech, and initiated in the use of the Universal Alphabet, so as to be enabled to produce and to record all varieties of Native and Foreign Sounds. ' Foreigners are taught to pronounce English with the characteristics of vernacular utterance. Speech for the Deaf and Dumb. Mr A. Melville Bell, assisted by his Son, Mr A. G. Bell, has now made arrangements to receive a limited number of Deaf and Dumb Pupils to be taught to speak. By means of ' Visible Speech' as the instrument of instruction, a rapid progress may be confidently expected. London, N. W.; 18 Harrington Square, (near Regent's Park).