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On The Natural Language of Signs; And Its Value And Uses In The Instruction Of The Deaf And Dumb, Part 1
This natural language of signs, spontaneously employed by the deaf-mute, and gradually enlarged and rendered more and more accurately descriptive by himself, and sometimes by the ingenuity also of the members of the family, develops itself with a remarkable similarity of features in all such families. Its similarity is so great that two uneducated deaf-mutes, who have never had any intercourse with others in a similar condition, can, at their first interview, communicate with each other on a considerable number of common subjects....
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Title: On The Natural Language of Signs; And Its Value And Uses In The Instruction Of The Deaf And Dumb, Part 1
From: On The Natural Language of Signs; And Its Value And Uses In The Instruction Of The Deaf And Dumb
Creator: Thomas Gallaudet (author)
Date: October 1847
Format: Article
Publication: American Annals of the Deaf
Source: Available at selected libraries
Location: vol.1, no.1, pp.55-60
Keywords: American School For The Deaf; Asylums; Children; Clergy; Communication; Deaf; Deaf Culture; Education; Educational Institutions; Family; Identity; Institutions; Native American; Religion; Sensory Disability; Sign Language; Social Welfare & Communities; Thomas Gallaudet
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Science, Health & Technology; Social Movements & Advocacy


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- On The Natural Language of Signs; And Its Value And Uses In The Instruction Of The Deaf And Dumb, Part 1 (doc)
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