International reports of schools for the deaf made to the Volta Bureau, January 1901.

Date:
1902
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Credit: International reports of schools for the deaf made to the Volta Bureau, January 1901. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    teaf, December, 1900—ContM. It on a proper footing, and hove lately been to England and raised about X900 with which to build a ichool for boye and girls. dly-trained master, who has taught in a school in Glasgow and Exeter on the oral system, has offered to r t and help, and most thankful should I be to have him if the money is forthcoming, but as my school is thont funds, and every child at present is either a famine orphan or too poor to pay anything towards oats, I dare not get him out until I have got some promises of help towards his support. The children .ed and clothed on the small sum of £i a year, and many friends have made themselves responsible for a > I have no fear for that part of the expenses, but a master’s board, salary, and expenses from England is tom out of my small funds, but I am still hoping that friends of the deaf and dumb will help me and let -at his offer. I have had leave from my society to give up a good part of my other work and devote more ppening out this, and alrea<ly I have many applications from different parts of India, and am exjjccting a y of seven from Peshawac, a distance of seven days by train, at the other extreme of India. Had I time tell of many whom I have had to refuse, and also, that out of my small numbers, I have children from >.■1?. IV. P., central India, and Punjab, as well as the Madras presidency. Hoping you will be able to give ; little help, for which I shall indeed be very grateful, believe me, yours truly, (Miss) FnOBKNCE SWAISSON. i*.—Japan. (1) Our Institution aims to educate the deaf, dumb, and blind, as the name shows. The V idents are taught just like the common pupils who have the power to see, and we especially aim to teach jjj iitudeuts various arts so tliat they can support themselves independently after they are graduated. In lar course we use embogsed letters for the blind students, which were invented by a Frenchman, Louis Xliere are eight teachers and fifty students. In addition to general course we have an industrial depart- . we before remarked, whicli consists of music, sliampooing, and acupuncture. -institution is the first one established in .Japan. During the first years of its establishment it was a ‘ lehool, but after that time onward it became a public institution by the help of Gtivcmor Makimnra. itution is maintained by a yearly appropriation of the educational department and the department of house, and especially by gifts from the royal family and benevolent people. Our majesties, the Emperor ■.uress, sometimes jiay a visit to our institution. In order to further it, a charity so<;lety ” was organized 1.1, which collects coutributious from anyone who will give. The members of the society number 1,100. a gold mtHlal was given to us by an educational exhibition in London, England, for the things which ents had made and were exhibited there. In 188.'5 we received a diploma from the Louisiana Exhibition .ica, and in 1894 a diploma from the World’s Fair in Chicago, United States of America, hose pupils who have the possibility to pronounce, we convey our instruction by the method of arllcu- «) those pupils who show no possibility to pronounce, by the methotl,of writing. 'Mr. N. Konishl, Director of the School, was commissioned to pay a visit of a year and a half to the .. 'Statea, England, France, and Germany, in order to study the different systems of teaching the blind :-mute. He left JajMU for the United States on the 22d of Dei^ember, 1890, and returned on the 29th of K.-r, 1899.” I the 12th of November, 1898, Dr. A. G. Bell, inventor of the telephone and specialist in the matter of to instruction, was requested to deliver a lecture at the school. Mr. Tukiwo Osaki, ex-Mlnister of Public ion, the high functionaries of the Ministry, the directors and professors of the schools which are under '-•t supervision of the Ministry, the pupils of the higher normal school, of the normal school for girls and -irmal school of Tokyo, were admitted to this lecture.” ominciofjVm.—In the month of May, 18SC, Mr. N. Eonishi, then a teacher at the schooL took a deaf pupil, ^aineof Eiuzo Eikkawa, to Mr. S. Izawa, then chief of the Bureau of Compilations in the Ministry of ■nstructlon, to teach him the visible speech method of a Scotch professor, Mr. A. M. Bell. .Ka it was very ^ I to teach this method to all the pupils, those among them were selected who gave reasonable hopes of In regard to the others, their instruction was confined to writing. The characters which wo use dally i being of Chinese origin, excepting tlie 'Kana ’ are pronouncetl in different ways, and, moreover, have :4iffer<mt meanings. Add to this the. three different kinds of writing, viz., the kaUho [square style], the medium style], and the tnaho [running handwriting], the two languages, the sjKjken and the written, so from each other, not to mention the two styles, viz., the ordinary and the epistolary, which do not > each other, and you got an idea of the almost insurmountable difficulties which the instruction of deaf- ’Wsaent, particularly in regard to the pronunciation. Foreigners can hardly have a conception of these <es, and to this complexity of the Japanese language must be attributed the slow progress made by our tes, more especially in the matter of pronunciation.” 992, the double aeoustia tube of Mr. Currier, Director of the School for Deaf-Mutes at New York, was tried, ” >d results, as far as some pupils were concerned, but the practice did not become general. It was noticed, , that those who had become deaf at an adult age, or in consoquenoo of some sickness, gladly used this •Isome even Iraught them.” ^ trade of tailor.—A beginning to teach this trade was made; in February, 1882, and it is stlU taught at the the trades which deaf are able to Icam, that of the tailor is the most profitable in Japan. This quires but little capital and few tools, and ample practice Is sufficient to acquire it. Moreover, this trade SBocessfuliy followed both in the large cities and in the distant provinces. As the wages are generally i I