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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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irly edu-cated and well informed. Mrs. Lucy Ann Whitlock, Ansonia, Conn.—About eighty; has been deaf and blind ten years.Converses by the glove alphabet. Has not learnedany print for the blind. —. .— Born 1847. Between the ages of seven and eight, a severe attack of measles greatly im-paired her sight and hearing-; in eighteen monthsshe was entirely blind and deaf, and her speech wasvery much impaired through disuse. About thistime a teacher of the deaf saw her, and, learning-that a few days before she had found a word inraised letters on a stove and was much delighted bythe discovery, undertook to teach her the manualalphabet, and, by the aid of cardboard letters, suc-ceeded in doing this in three lessons. After thather speech rapidly improved. Her delicate healthprevented her having a systematic education. Shedied five years ago. Hers was a singularly lovelycharacter, as shown by letters to Laura Bridgmanand others. Her family objects to any publicationgiving- her identity. 32
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JOHN P. WALSH and CLARENCE SELBY. CLASS C —PERSONS PARTIALLY DEAF AND BLIND, The OR WITH ONE SENSE ENTIRELY LOST AND THE Blind-DeafOTHER VERY IMPERFECT. (Many cases noted in this class might well be left out, asthey have, or had, sight or hearing enough for some prac-tical use ; but to draw the line is an exceedingly difficulttask, as the gradations between fair senses and total lackof them grow very fine; and, as several instances notedhave been mentioned in professional publications simply asdeaf and blind, and others are known to many, it seemsbest to include them, with as full statements of their condi-tion as can be obtained.) A. Telfer Barnard, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.—Lost sight at four, and at the same time lost allhearing- in one ear and much of the hearing- of theother ear. He attended the Institution for theBlind at Brantford, Ont., and took the Arts courseat Queens University, Kingston, Ont., graduatingin 1899 with the degree of B. A. Charles Brown, Philadelphia Inst

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