Teaching the Deaf to Talk.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1218, 30 January 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

Teaching the Deaf to Talk.

Mr. N. F. Whipple, principal of the Oral School of Deaf Mutes, ,at Mystic, Conn., recently explained in the Plymouth lecture room, Brooklyn, the system of teaching articulation to the deaf %nd dumb. He introduced on the platform a boy who had been deaf from his birth, and who repeated the Lord's Prayer loud enough to be heard in the rear of the room. The boy spoke wijh much distinctness. Long and difficult words suggested by the audienoe were promptly interpreted by another deaf boy as they fell from Mr. Whipple's lipa. Enoch Whipple, over sixty years of age, who was the first deaf mute taught to speak in this country, read a chapter from Jeremiah, and related how in early childhood he had learned the power of speech from watching the movements of his father's lips.

As a test of the length to which the system has been carried, Mr. Whipple had the lights lowered and had a deaf boy interpret his utterances by watching the shadows made on the wall by his lips. — Scientific American.

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