Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilmington, Mass., Walter Melinsky hopped about, gesticulated with his fingers, tried to attract the attention of a crowd of bathers. When bystanders finally realized the cause of his .antics it was too late to save his drowned companion, like himself a deaf mute, for whom he was summoning...
Many members of the National Association of the Deaf know how to read lips and to voice intelligible sounds. But they find communication by signs is more accurate. They talk with a single hand, as do the deaf of the rest of the Americas, of Ireland and Europe. English and Australian deaf use both hands. When W. W. McDougall of England addressed the Buffalo convention he required John Shilton of Toronto to interpret...
Foreign delegates to the convention envied U. S. facilities for teaching the deaf. The U. S. is the only country providing a high grade college for the deaf (Gallaudet College at Washington). Graduates have successfully followed advanced courses at Johns Hopkins, George Washington, McGill, Pennsylvania and California universities, have become teachers, home managers, printers, publishers, farmers, businessmen, chemists, ministers, athletic directors...
...used to be that deaf children, like idiots, were considered useless to the community and allowed to die. For less than 300 years has there been any systematic effort to educate them. In the U. S. every state except Delaware, New Hampshire, Nevada and Wyoming, supports schools for the deaf. Those four states send their deaf children at public expense to schools in other states. Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, North Dakota, Rhode Island, West Virginia and Vermont have compulsory school attendance laws for deaf children...
Getting jobs for the deaf was, besides the 1'Epée statue dedication, the main preoccupation of the convention. The association wants employers to realize that the deaf can work at every occupation except aviation. Their handicap in flying results, not from their inability to hear, but from deficiency of the organ of balance in the inner ear. President Arthur L. Roberts declared that not one insurance company discriminates against the deaf, that employers have found that accidents are rare among deaf workers because they are exceptionally careful. A recent Pennsylvania check-up of motorists revealed deaf drivers...