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Title: Blind Deaf
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: William Wade
Subjects: Deafblindness
Publisher: Hecker Brothers
Contributing Library: American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., M. C. Migel Library
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unds that can notbe distinguished from one another by lip positions ;but, in either case, the natural context gives theclue to what is being said. To carry the analogyfarther, it is probable that the blind-deaf no morethink of the motions of the fingers when reading bywrist movements than the deaf do of sound whenreading speech. In conclusion, we quote from a recent letter fromMr. Wade to the writer in which he says : In con-firmation of my guess that motions, and not posi-tions, are the key to reading manual spelling by theblind-deaf, this goes a good way : When at Fan-wood a fortnight or so since, I spelled Yes onKaties shoulder, and she instantly took it for theanswer to her question. I asked her how she rec-ognized it and she replied Why, by your motions.I was particularly careful to avoid any distinctionbetween numbers of motions, that she might notrecognize by the three letters of one and two of theother word, running e and s closely together asthough it were but one motion. 124
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HELEN ADAMS KELLER. IS THERE ANOTHER SENSE DEVELOPED The IN THE BLIND-DEAF? Blind-Deaf (The Silent Worker, Trenton, New Jersey.) The genius of the blind-deaf for thought andspeech is one of the unaccountable things of intel-lectual life ! There is a very large proportion ofthose simply deaf who labor in vain for a masteryof language. They may try ever so hard, but tothe last there is a paucity of expression, a peculiar-ity of diction, a lack of euphony, that stamps themas foreign to the tongue. One would think thatwhen the loss of sight were added to the loss ofhearing, the difficulty of acquiring would be in-creased and the darkness intensified. But thiswould seem, from the cases now gathered in theschools for the deaf and those under the instructionof private teachers, not to be true. Helen Kellerwas for a time thought to be a marvel. She standsto-day, indeed, at the head of the list, and it will bea long time before her star is dimmed by one ofgreater splendor. There are others, ho

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