Word: deafness
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...French via the methods used to teach deaf children to speak was the new wrinkle this summer at private Grosse Pointe (Mich.) University School. Example: student and teacher sit before a mirror to master the lip movements of French pronunciation. In one week, four-year-olds learned five numbers, 25 words, a dozen phrases. Five-and six-year-olds learned twice as much. The Grosse Pointe public school system will now try the method in fourth to sixth grades...
...death.* Since the second son in line, Don Jaime, was a deaf-mute and renounced the throne, the monarchic responsibility at last fell to Don Juan...
...London's University College Hospital, Obstetrician C. N. Smyth and Audiologist K. P. Murphy were trying to find out why some babies are born deaf. To their surprise, they discovered that even while normal babies are still in the womb they can not only hear musical tones, but usually respond to them by speeding up their heartbeat. The phenomenon may be observed as long as three months before the baby...
...angry?" asked Juliette in serialized memoirs in Paris Match and London's weekly People. The answer, said she, was that "I have always loved lost causes. He was like an orphan to me. I was attracted by that poor little rich man who was in some ways blind, deaf and dumb." The old Romeo's reply to sweet Juliette: a $20,000 damage suit for making him look "ridiculous...
...Miracle Worker. On film as on Broadway, the story of the child Helen Keller's release from the condition of a blind deaf-mute becomes an almost unbearably moving performance...