Twenty-First Annual Report of the Clarke Institution for Deaf-Mutes, 1888
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Includes pictures of buildings, report of the corporation by Lewis J. Dudley, financial statement, report of the principal by Caroline A. Yale, prizes, courses of study, catalogue of pupils, terms of admission, and Massachusetts Law in Regard to the Education of Deaf-Mutes. It takes deaf children four years to reach the same stage as when a hearing child starts school. This leaves only six more years for ordinary instruction if a child stays in school for ten years. Dudley believes that Massachusetts should modify the law so that student's education can be extended. People often refer to the Clarke School as a "Deaf and Dumb Asylum," and to their pupils as "deaf and dumb mutes." Dudley reiterates that the word "dumb" should not be used to describe deaf people. Alice C. Jennings wrote a letter about the use of the word 'dumb' to describe deaf people. Two students, Edward J. Putnam and George E. Richardson, drowned near the end of the school year. This is the first time that students have died while at school. There is a discussion about what age deaf children should start school. Private instruction at home can be beneficial for students if there is a competent tutor to teach articulation and lipreading before going to school.
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