Identifier: annualreportofse973unit (find matches)
Title: Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the year ended June 30, 1897
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: United States Department of the Interior
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or sixteen years as an oral school, has lately adoptedthe combined system, the results under the pure oral method having been foundunsatisfactory by its managers. In an address I had the honor of making to your association six years ago at itsGlasgow meeting, I undertook to present certain considerations to prove that theeducation of the deaf could be best achieved only under a system which adopted ina judicious combination the plainly useful features of all methods. Without repeat-ing any of the statements or arguments I brought forward in that address, I will askyour attention to certain matters that have come to my knowledge since the time ofyour Glasgow meeting which go to confirm most forcibly the views I then felt justi-fied in expressing. Within the past five years I have been appealed to in a surprisingly large numberof cases by parents of deaf children, the results of whose education under the pureoral method had proved unsatisfactory. These children were not of low mental634
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Statue of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. Founder of Deaf-mute Education in America. COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB. 635 capacity, nor had they failed to acquire the power of speech. In several cases, even,they were thought by their teachers in the pure oral schools to be marked illustra-tions of the success of the oral method. But their parents felt otherwise, and con-sidered that the value of their childrens attainments, the chief of which was animperfect power of vocal utterance, fell far short of being an equivalent for the timeand money expended in securing them. These parents, having learned that a broadersystem of educating the deaf was to be found, came to me as one of its supporters forcounsel and aid in securing the better education of their children. Several of these youths have been received iuto the institution over which I havethe honor to preside, and their parents have expressed the liveliest satisfaction atthe improvement they have made under the combined system

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