Report of the proceedings of the International Congress on the Education of the Deaf, held at Milan, September 6th-11th, 1880 / taken from the English official minutes, read by A.A. Kinsey.

  • International Congress on Education of the Deaf 1880 : Milan, Italy)
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1880
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    Miss Hull (Private School, Kensington) then pro- ceeded to read her paper, m French, upon her varied experience in teaching the deaf. The regulations of the Congress would not permit this paper being finished at one reading, and the latter portion was. accordingly reserved till the following day. M. HuGENTOBLER (Lyons), who had been requested to read a paper from Herr "Director Bossier, of the Institution at Hildesheim, withdrew it, on the ground that the matter contained therein had already been sufficiently discussed. The President proposed to close the sitting with a resolution. After a long and animated discussion as to the form of resolution, Dr. Peet (New York) proposed an amendment as follows :—'' That the resolution be referred to a Committee, to consider and report upon, at the nest Congress." This was put, and immediately negatived. An adjournment for twenty minutes to consider the form of resolution then took place—After which it was put to the meeting as follows :— I. The Congress— Considering the incontestable superiority of speech over signs in restoring the deaf-mute to society, and in giving him a more perfect knowledge of language. Declares— That the Oral method ought to be preferred to that of signs for the education and instruc- tion of the deaf and dumb.
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