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

by Harry Best

• St. Francis de Sales, [124].
• St. Joseph's Institution, [306].
  • See [New York].
• Sarah Fuller Home, [306].
  • See [Denominational and private schools]; [Massachusetts].
• Schott, Gaspard, [125].
• Seixas, David, [140].
• Self-supporting, the deaf as, see [Economic condition].
• "Semi-deaf", [9n], [286n].
• "Semi-mute", [9n], [286n].
• Semi-public schools, [156], [172-176], [180], [181], [295n], [297], [303].
• Sensational accounts of deaf, [105n].
• Settlements, social, work of, [107n].
• Sibscota, George, [123].
• Sicard, [127].
• Sign language, [11], [12], [92], [187n], [277-279].
  • See [Manual alphabet].
• Societies for deaf, see [Private organizations].
• Social organization of deaf, [91-98].
• Societies of the deaf, [92-96];
  • desirability, [93];
  • purposes, [94-96].
• Solidarity of deaf, [78n], [94], [95].
• South Carolina, education in, [138], [144], [176], [182], [184], [235].
• South Dakota, education in, [183], [204n], [235], [300].
• Spain, early education in, [122], [123].
• Speech, [8-12], [279-284];
  • ability of deaf in, [8], [9], [284];
  • growth of teaching of, [282-284];
  • relation to sense of hearing, [3], [4].
  • See [Oral method].
• Stanford, John, [131], [139].
• State, action of, see [Law, attitude of].
• States, provision in, [209-241];
  • lands given by, [301];
  • without schools, procedure in, [169], [171], [185], [297].
  • See [Appropriations]; [Charity]; [Constitutional provisions]; [Government of institutions].
• Stone, Collins, [156n].
• Strange class, deaf as a, [99].
• Subsidies, see [Appropriations]; [Semi-public schools].
• Support of schools, see [Cost].

• Tax, exemptions of deaf from, [65], [69].
• Taxation for schools, special, [163], [172], [297].
• Teachers, see [Instructors].
• Tennessee, education in, [143], [182], [183], [184], [236].
• Terms, see [Admission into schools].
• Terzi, Lana, [124].
• Texas, education in, [172], [176n], [182], [236].
• Thornton, William, [133n].
• Totally deaf, see ["Deaf"].
• Trades, see [Industrial training]; [Economic condition].
• Transportation, see [Clothing].
• Trustees of schools, [163], [169], [180-184], [185n].
  • See [Homes]; [Denominational schools]; [States, provision in].
• Turner, William W., [156n].

• Unhappy class, deaf as, [102].
• United States, number of deaf in, [5].
  • See [American possessions].
• Utah, education in, [176], [182], [185n], [236], [300].

• Vagrants, see [Impostors].
• Value of property, see [Property].
• Van Helmont, Jan Baptista, [124].
• Van Nostrand, Jacob, [156n].
• Vanin, [126].
• Vermont, education in, [138], [173], [176], [237].
• Virginia, education in, [131-133], [142], [172], [176], [183], [184], [237].
• Volta Bureau, [108], [109], [115].
• "Volta Review", [109], [115].

• Wages paid to deaf, see [Economic condition].
• Walker, Newton P., [156n].
• Wallis, John, [123].
• Washington, education in, [183], [185n], [191], [192], [238].
• Weld, Louis, [156n].
• West Virginia, education in, [172n], [176], [183], [185n], [238].
• Western Pennsylvania Institution, [187n], [188n], [306].
  • See [Pennsylvania].
• Wills of deaf, [65], [72], [73].
• Wisconsin, education in, [144], [183], [188n], [191], [192], [202], [239].
• Witness, the deaf as, [72].
• Writing as means of communication, [11], [12], [285], [286].
• Wyoming, education in, [171], [185], [240].

• Young Men's Christian Association, work of, [107n].

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Transcriber's Corrections

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Impacted cerumen

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