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

by Harry Best

• Idaho, education in, [176], [183], [184], [214].
• Ideas of early schools, [144-147].
• Illinois, education in, [144], [183], [191], [192], [193], [202], [204], [214], [215], [305].
• Immigration in respect to deaf, [66].
• Impostors simulating deafness, [82-84], [316].
• Increase of deafness, see [Adventitious deafness]; [Congenital deafness].
• Indiana, education in, [142], [157], [183], [184], [216].
• Indigent pupils, see [Admission into schools]; [Clothing and transportation]; [Fees]; [Restrictions].
• Industrial training, [80], [169], [193], [199], [205], [290-292], [319].
• Institutions, general arrangements of, [171-186];
  • government, [180-185];
  • arguments against, [194];
  • arguments for, [197].
  • See [Boarding institutions]; [Methods of instruction]; [States, provision in].
• Instructors, associations of, [113], [114];
  • number of, [288];
  • training schools for, [289n].
• Insurance companies and the deaf, [104];
  • among the deaf, [95], [96].
• Interpreters for deaf, [65], [74], [112n].
• Iowa, education in, [144], [183], [216].
• Italy, early education in, [121], [124].

• Jacobs, John A., [156n].

• Kansas, education in, [184], [217].
• Kendall School, see [Gallaudet College]; [District of Columbia].
• Kentucky, education in, [141], [142], [157], [164n], [184], [217], [297], [299].
• Kerger, [125].
• Kerr, William D., [156n].
• Kilpatrick, John, [132].
• Kindergarten departments, see [Denominational and private schools]; [Gradations of pupils].

• Labor bureaus for deaf, [71], [81n].
• Ladies' societies, [88n], [161n], [173n].
• Land given for schools, [137], [141], [162], [299-302].
  • See [States, provision in].
• Language, difficulty of for deaf, [198], [201], [287].
• Law, general attitude of toward deaf, [63-74];
  • trend of, [73];
  • need of changed regard, [314].
  • See [Legal exceptions]; [Legislation].
• Le Couteulx St. Mary's Institution, [306].
  • See [New York].
• Legal exceptions, views of deaf respecting, [74n].
• Legislation in aid of deaf, [68-71];
  • discriminatory, [66];
  • in protection, [67], [68].
• Legislatures, appeals to, [159], [160].
  • See [Appropriations]; [Law, attitude of]; [States, provision in].
• Lip-reading, [10], [284].
  • See [Speech].
• Location of schools, [163], [301].
• Louisiana, education in, [172n], [183], [184], [191], [193], [202], [218].
• Lutheran Church, work of, see [Church work]; [Denominational schools].

• McIntyre, Thomas, [156n].
• Maine, education in, [138], [183], [218].
• Mann, Horace, [281].
• Manual alphabet, [11], [12], [277], [278].
  • See [Sign language].
• Manual alphabet method, [285-287].
• Manual method, [285-287].
• Maryland, education in, [141], [172], [173], [176n], [183], [202-205], [219].
• Marriages of deaf, advisability of, [46], [54-56];
  • laws to prohibit, [56n];
  • partners in, [55];
  • possibilities of deaf offspring, [46-52].
  • See [Congenital deafness].
• Massachusetts, education in, [130], [138], [171], [173], [184], [191], [193n], [219], [305].
  • See [Clarke School]; [Horace Mann School]; [New England Industrial School]; [Sarah Fuller Home].
• Medical bodies and prevention of deafness, [25], [26].
  • See [Adventitious deafness].
• Mendicancy, see [Alms-seekers].
• Methodist Church, work of, see [Church work].
• Methods of instruction, [193], [205], [277-287].
• Michigan, education in, [183], [191], [192], [202], [221], [301].
• Middle ages, education in, [120].
• Minnesota, education in, [183], [184], [191], [193], [222].
• Mississippi, education in, [182], [223].
• Missions, see [Church work for deaf]; [Legislation in aid of deaf].
• Missouri, education in, [142n], [144], [183], [191], [193], [202], [223].
• Montana, education in, [176], [182], [183], [184], [224], [300].
• Montans, Peter, [124].
• "Mute", see ["Deaf"].

• National college, see [Gallaudet College].
• National Educational Association, [114].
• National government, granting land for schools, [137], [141], [162], [299], [300];
  • creating Gallaudet College, [206-208].
  • See [District of Columbia].
• Nebraska, education in, [183], [224].
• Negroes, education of, [172], [176n], [185n], [268n].
• Nelson Philip, [129].
• Nevada, education in, [171], [185], [224].
• New England School, [306].
  • See [Massachusetts].
• New England states, interest in American School, [136], [137], [138].
• New Hampshire, education in, [138], [171], [185], [225].
• New Jersey, education in, [140], [141], [184], [191], [192], [225].
• New Mexico, education in, [182], [185n], [225].
• New York, education in, [131], [139], [140], [148n], [171], [173], [183], [184], [191-193], [204], [226-229], [305].
  • See [Le Couteulx St. Mary's Institution]; [New York Institution]; [New York Institution for Improved Instruction]; [St. Joseph's Institution].
• New York Institution, [131], [132n], [139], [140], [161n], [187n], [280n], [306].
  • See [New York].
• New York Institution for Improved Instruction, [281], [306].
  • See [New York].
• North Carolina, education in, [143], [172], [176n], [183], [184], [229].
• North Dakota, education in, [183], [230], [297], [300].

• Occupations of deaf, see [Economic condition].
• Œcolampadius, [124].
• Offspring, deaf, see [Marriages of deaf].
• Ohio, education in, [142], [143n], [157n], [183], [191], [192], [202], [205], [230].
• Oklahoma education in, [172], [176], [183], [184], [185n], [231].
• Opinions of deaf, see [Charity]; [Economic condition]; [Legal exceptions].
• Oral method, [187n], [193], [205], [279-287], [296n].
• Oregon, education in, [183], [185n], [191], [232].

• Papers of deaf, [97], [116];
  • of schools, [116], [292].
  • See [Publications for deaf].
• Parents, deaf, and offspring, see [Marriages of deaf].
• Parents' associations, [109].
• Partially deaf, [3n].
• Pasch, [125].
• Pay pupils, see [Fees].
• Peet, Harvey P., [156n].
• Pereire, [126].
• Pennsylvania, education in, [140], [141], [171], [173], [183], [202-204], [233], [234], [305].
  • See [Pennsylvania Institution]; [Western Pennsylvania Institution].
• Pennsylvania Institution, [140], [141], [181], [187n], [306].
  • See [Pennsylvania].
• Politics in schools, [185n], [322].
• Ponce de Leon, Pedro, [122].
• Popular conceptions of deaf, [99-106], [313], [314].
• Prevention of deafness, see [Adventitious deafness]; [Congenital deafness].
• Principals, Conference of, [113], [114].
• Private benefactions, [135], [136], [140], [142], [158], [160], [161], [163], [173-176], [179], [181], [281], [295], [296], [301], [303-308], [321].
  • See [Denominational and private schools]; [Homes]; [Private organizations]; [States, provision in].
• Private organizations for deaf, [107-116].
  • See [Denominational schools]; [Semi-public schools].
• Private schools, see [Denominational and private schools].
• Property, value of, [293].
• Protestant Episcopal Church, work of, see [Church work].
• Public appropriations, see [Appropriations].
• Public schools, deaf in, see [Day schools].
• Publications for deaf, [115], [307n].
  • See [Papers]; [Volta Bureau].
• Pupils, at beginning, [165];
  • number of, [288];
  • proportion in attendance, [268-270].
  • See [Clothing]; [Fees]; [Gradations]; [Restrictions].

• Quasi-public schools, see [Semi-public schools].

• Rae, Luzerne, [156n].
• Raphel, Georges, [125].
• Relatives, deaf, see [Congenital deafness].
• Relief for needy deaf, [69], [95], [112].
• Religious work, see [Church work]; [Denominational schools].
• Restrictions, [157], [166], [262], [263], [318].
  • See [Fees]; [Age limits].
• Rhode Island, education in, [138], [184], [234].