The Deaf / Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States

by Harry Best

INDEX

• Accidents as a cause of deafness, 17.
• Admission into schools, [157], [166-168], [262-267].
  • See [Fees]; [Restrictions].
• Adult deaf in schools, [267n].
  • See [Evening schools]; [Homes].
• Adventitious deafness, [16-40];
  • ages of occurrence of, [18];
  • action for the prevention of, [21-26];
  • as an increasing or decreasing phenomenon, [27-40];
  • causes of, [17-21];
  • conclusions respecting, [59], [60], [309].
• Age of occurrence of deafness, [7-10], [12], [17], [18].
• Agricola, Rudolph, [121].
• Aid to the deaf, see [Homes for the deaf]; [Legislation]; [Private organizations].
  • —— for schools, see [Clothing and transportation]; [Private benefactions].
• Aims of first schools, [147-154].
• Alabama, education in, [172], [176n], [182], [184], [209], [297].
• Alms-houses, deaf in, [79].
• Alms-seekers, deaf as, [83-85], [316].
• Alphabet for deaf, see [Manual alphabet].
• American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, [109], [113], [114].
• American possessions, education in, [240].
• American School, [132n], [134-139], [141n], [156n], [181], [299], [306].
  • See [Connecticut].
• Amman, John, [124].
• Ancient treatment of deaf, [63], [119].
• "Annals of the Deaf, American", [115].
• Appropriations for schools, state, [136], [161], [163], [295], [321].
  • See [Day schools]; [Semi-public schools].
• Arizona, education in, [185], [209], [300].
• Arkansas, education in, [183], [210].
• Associations of the deaf, see [Societies].
• "Asylums", use of term, [104], [148], [251n], [256n].
• Attendance in schools, [165], [268-276].
  • See [Age limits].
• Auricular instruction, [283], [285-287].
• Austine Institution, [306].
  • See [Vermont].

• Baker, Henry, [123].
• Baptist Church, work of, see [Church work].
• Bartlett, David E., [156n].
• Bede, Venerable, [121].
• Bell, A. G., [5n], [108].
• Benefactions, see [Private benefactions]; [Endowment funds].
• Blind associated with deaf, [99n].
  • See [Dual schools].
• Boarding institutions, [168], [169], [187].
• Bolling, William, [131].
• Bonet, Juan, [122].
• Bonifaccio, Giovanni, [121].
• Braidwood, John, [131], [132].
• Braidwood, Thomas, [127].
• Bulwer, John, [122].

• California, education in, [176], [183], [191], [192], [193], [202], [204], [210], [305].
• Camerarius, Rudolph, [125].
• Carion, Ramirez de, [123].
• Cardano, Girolamo, [121].
• Castro, Pietro de, [121].
• Catholic Church, work of, see [Church work]; [Denominational schools].
• Causes of deafness, see [Adventitious deafness]; [Congenital deafness].
• Census of deaf, how taken, [5n], [14].
• Charges to pupils, see [Fees]; [Restrictions].
• Charities, boards of, [182], [183].
  • See [Charity]; [States, provision in].
• Charity in connection with schools, [104], [147], [248-261], [322];
  • conclusions respecting, [260];
  • in best sense, [249];
  • in legal sense, [252n];
  • opposition to connection, [256];
  • popular conceptions of charity, [250];
  • regard by states, [248];
  • views of boards of charities, [254];
  • views of deaf, [259];
  • views of instructors, [259].
• Church work for deaf, [96], [110-113].
  • See [Private benefactions].
• Cities, aid of to schools, [161-163], [301].
  • See [Day schools]; [States, provision in].
• Clarke School, [281], [306].
  • See [Massachusetts].
• Classes of pupils, see [Gradations].
• Classical allusions to the deaf, [119].
• Clerc, Laurent, [135].
• Clothing and transportation provided for pupils, [255], [264], [265], [296], [307].
• Clubs of deaf, see [Societies].
• Cogswell, Alice, [134].
• College for the deaf, see [Gallaudet College].
• Colorado, education in, [176], [184], [211], [297], [305].
• Colonies for the deaf, [89n].
• Combined method of instruction, [283], [285-287].
• Communication, methods of among deaf, [11], [12], [277-287].
• Compulsory education, [272-276], [320].
• Conference of Principals, [113], [114].
• Congenital deafness, [41-60];
  • as an increasing or decreasing phenomenon, [57];
  • conclusions respecting, [60-62], [310];
  • consanguineous marriages affecting, [42];
  • deaf parents affecting, [46];
  • deaf relatives affecting, [45];
  • possible action for the prevention of, [52].
• Congregational Church, work of, see [Church work].
• Congress, action of, see [National government].
• Connecticut, education in, [136], [138], [171], [173], [183], [211], [305].
  • See [American School].
• Consanguineous marriages, [42], [54], [60].
  • See [Congenital deafness].
• Constitutional provisions, [64], [169], [242-247], [321].
• Control, boards of, [183].
• Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf, [113], [114].
• Corporations, see [Semi-public schools].
• Cost of education, [293-298], [322];
  • for maintenance, [295];
  • for new buildings, [294];
  • in day schools, [192];
  • per pupil, [298];
  • to states sending outside, [297].
  • See [Property, value of]; [Semi-public schools].
• County aid to schools, [162], [265], [296];
  • officers, work of, [166], [275n].
• Courses of study, [287].
• Court decisions relating to deaf, [65], [71].
  • See [Law, attitude of].
• Crimes, responsibility of deaf for, [65], [72].

• Dactylology, see [Manual alphabet].
• Dalgarno, George, [123].
• Day schools, [168], [187-201], [318];
  • arguments against, [197];
  • arguments for, [194];
  • co-operation with institutions, [189], [190];
  • co-ordination with public schools, [190], [193];
  • design of, [188];
  • equipment of, [193], [196];
  • evening schools as part of, [200], [201];
  • institutions as, [187];
  • laws for, [192];
  • number, [187], [191];
  • pupils in, [193];
  • support, [192], [193].
  • See [Methods of instruction]; [States, provision in].
• "Deaf", meaning of term, [3].
• "Deaf-and-dumb", see ["Deaf"].
• Deaf-blind, [5n], [178-179], [307].
• "Deaf-mute", [9n], [286n].
  • See ["Deaf"].
• "Deaf-mutism", [101n].
• Deafness in different states, [5].
• "Defective" class, the deaf as a, [100].
• Delaware, education in, [141], [171], [185], [212].
• Denominational and private schools, [168], [202-205], [319].
  • See [Methods of instruction]; [States, provision in].
• Dependent class, the deaf as a, [103].
  • See [Economic condition].
• Deschamps, [126].
• Difficulties of early schools, [144], [145], [164], [165].
• Diseases, effect of, see [Adventitious deafness].
• District of Columbia, education in, [171], [172n], [182], [185n], [212], [213], [296], [305].
  • See [Gallaudet College].
• Dual schools, [173], [176], [177], [293n], [294n], [295n].
• Dues, see [Fees].
• "Dumbness", see ["Deaf"].

• Ear, diseases of, see [Adventitious Deafness].
• Early attempts at instruction, [129-133].
  • —— workers, character of, [155], [156].
• Economic condition of deaf, [75-90], [314], [316];
  • conclusions respecting, [90];
  • deafness, effect of, [75], [80], [83];
  • occupations of deaf, [76], [77];
  • unions, members of, [82n];
  • views of deaf, [81];
  • wage-earners, extent as, [76-78], [81], [82].
  • See [Alms-houses]; [Dependent class]; [Homes]; [Industrial training].
• Education, associations for, [113], [114];
  • boards of, [184], [185], [248], [258];
  • See [States, provision in].
  • ——, condition of deaf before, [146], [148-154], [312].
• Employment of deaf, see [Economic condition].
• Endowment funds, [172], [174], [295].
  • See [Private benefactions].
• England, early education in, [121-123], [127].
• Épée, abbé de l', [126], [127].
• Ephpheta School, [306].
  • See [Illinois].
• Eugenics, see [Congenital deafness].
• Europe, first schools in, [119-128];
  • recognition in of work in America, [170n].
• Evening schools for adults, [200], [201].
• Exhibits of deaf pupils, [136], [142], [158], [159], [160].

• Farming as an industry, [83n], [90n], [291], [292].
  • See [Economic condition].
• Fay, Barnabas M., [156n].
• Feeble-minded deaf, [179], [180].
• Fees for pupils, [143], [157].
  • See [Admission into schools]; [Denominational schools]; [Restrictions].
  • —— in semi-public schools, membership, [156], [173], [181], [304].
• Fiction, deaf in, [100n].
• Finger-spelling, see [Manual alphabet]; [Sign language].
• First schools, [131], [134-144].
• Florida, education in, [176], [183], [184], [213].
• France, early education in, [125-127].
• Fraternal organizations of deaf, [95], [96].

• Gallaudet College, [168], [206-208], [265n], [319].
  • See [District of Columbia].
• Gallaudet, Edward Miner, [207n].
• Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins, [134-136], [138n], [156n].
• Georgia, education in, [138], [143], [182], [191], [193], [204n], [214].
• Germany, early education in, [121], [124], [125].
• Gifts, see [Private benefactions].
• Government of institutions, [180-185].
  • See [States, provision in].
• Gradations of pupils, [287-289].
• Graduates of schools, [80], [288], [289].
• Green, Francis, [130].
• Guardians for deaf, [67], [68].

• "Hard of hearing", [3n];
  • schools for, [202n].
• Harrower, John, [129].
• Hearing in school children, defective, [24].
• Hebrew work for deaf, see [Church work].
• Heinicke, Samuel, [125].
• Heredity, see [Congenital deafness].
• Holder, William, [123].
• Holland, early education in, [124].
• Homes for deaf, [85-89], [314];
  • extent of, [87], [88];
  • purpose, [86];
  • support, [89].
  • —— for children, [254n], [296n].
  • See [Denominational and private schools]; [Boarding institutions].
• Horace Mann School, [188], [282].
  • See [Massachusetts].
• Hubbell, Horatio N., [156n].
• Hutton, Abraham B., [156n].