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The Perversity Of Deaf-Mutism
And yet after all our sedulous care, they obstinately persist in not understanding and not writing English, and shunning those who do; in talking in signs; in attending deaf-mute conventions, reading deaf-mute papers, and marrying deaf-mutes.
Surely this can only be utter perversity or original sin....
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Title: The Perversity Of Deaf-Mutism
Creator:  An Extremist (author)
Date: October 1873
Format: Article
Publication: American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb
Source: Available at selected libraries
Location: vol.18, no.4, pp.262-263
Keywords: Children; Communication; Deaf; Deaf Culture; Education; Educational Institutions; Identity; Ideologies; Institutions; Oralism; Policy; Schools; Sensory Disability; Sign Language; Social Welfare & Communities
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy