tailieunhanh - What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know

"As a mother of a deaf child, and one whose experience has been unusual only in that it has been more fortunate than that of the average mother so situated, I want to place before you (the teachers of the deaf) a plea for the education of the parents of little deaf children. "While you are laboring for the education of the deaf, and for their sakes are training teachers to carry on the work, there are, in almost every home that shelters a little deaf child, blunders being made that will retard his development and hinder your work for years to come--blunders that a. | What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know 1 CHAPTER PAGE What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know The Project Gutenberg EBook of What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know by John Dutton Wright This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know Author John Dutton Wright Release Date May 23 2006 EBook 18439 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MOTHER OF A DEAF CHILD Produced by Kathryn Lybarger Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http WHAT THE MOTHER OF A DEAF CHILD OUGHT TO KNOW BY CHAPTER PAGE 2 JOHN DUTTON WRIGHT FOUNDER AND PRINCIPAL OF THE WRIGHT ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF NEW YORK CITY COLLABORATOR OF THE LARYNGO- SCOPE AND THE VOLTA REVIEW DIRECTOR OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION TO PROMOTE THE TEACHING OF SPEECH TO THE DEAF AUTHOR OF EDUCA- TIONAL NEEDS OF THE DEAF FOR THE GUIDANCE OF PHYSICIANS Illustration Logo NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright 1915 by FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY _All rights reserved including that of translation into foreign languages_ March 1915 TO MY WIFE AT WHOSE SUGGESTION THIS LITTLE BOOK WAS WRITTEN IN ORDER THAT MOTHERS MAY DO ALL IN THEIR POWER FOR THEIR DEAF CHILDREN CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE PREFACE ix-xix I. FACING THE FACTS 1 II. HOW SHALL THE MOTHER BEGIN HER PART OF THE WORK 5 III. HOW SHALL THE MOTHER GET INTO COMMUNICATION WITH HER DEAF CHILD 13 IV. WHAT ABOUT THE BABY S SPEECH 20 V. DEVELOPING THE MENTAL FACULTIES 22 VI. DEVELOPING THE LUNGS 30 VII. THE CULTIVATION OF CREATIVE IMAGINATION 32 VIII. FURTHER TESTS OF HEARING 34 IX. THE DEVELOPMENT OF RESIDUAL HEARING 38 X. DEVELOPING THE POWER OF LIP-READING 43 XI. FORMING CHARACTER 47 CHAPTER PAGE 3 XII. CULTIVATING