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Christ heals a dumb, mentally ill child. Woodcut.

The act of incorporation and by-laws of the Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-Minded Children.

1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; image 10.4 x 17.6 cm

Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Newport, Kentucky: view from the river. Coloured line engraving by Fenner Sears & Co., 1832, after G. Wall.

Anna chooses not to talk when she enters kindergarten, but then she discovers the pleasures of self-expression in the security of a therapist's office.

Books to help children

32 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 x 20 cm.

Cat's got your tongue? : a story for children afraid to speak / by Charles E. Schaefer ; illustrated by Judith Friedman.

The Institut National des Sourds-Muets was founded by Abbé de l'Épée, c. 1760

The Institut National des Sourds-Muets, Paris: interior showing voters for the National Assembly. Wood engraving, 1871.

People in the audience communicate in sign language

Entertainment in sign language for the deaf and dumb at the Hanover Square rooms, London. Wood engraving.

5 pages, 1 unnumbered folded sheet of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm

Specification of Bertram Mitford : communicating with deaf and dumb persons.

Maya is a bright-eyed, inquisitive little girl who loves to share her sweet voice. But when she starts school, she loses the confidence to use her voice and goes about her school day in silence. With time, patience, understanding, and love from all those around her, Maya discovers her sweet voice.

Maya's voice / written and illustrated by Wen-Wen Cheng.

Book of poems about deaf and dumb people. Includes advertisements for the Midland Deaf & Dumb Institution (88, Friar Gate, Derby), Comfortine (infants' preservative without laudanum) from Edward Machon, chemist and G.H. Goodwin's dental practice and dentures at 115 Friar Gate, Derby.

Poems on the deaf and dumb / W.R. Roe.

1 print : wood engraving ; image 8 x 13.8 cm

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Christ heals a dumb, mentally ill child. Woodcut.

The act of incorporation and by-laws of the Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-Minded Children.

Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Newport, Kentucky: view from the river. Coloured line engraving by Fenner Sears & Co., 1832, after G. Wall.

Cat's got your tongue? : a story for children afraid to speak / by Charles E. Schaefer ; illustrated by Judith Friedman.

The Institut National des Sourds-Muets, Paris: interior showing voters for the National Assembly. Wood engraving, 1871.

Entertainment in sign language for the deaf and dumb at the Hanover Square rooms, London. Wood engraving.

Specification of Bertram Mitford : communicating with deaf and dumb persons.

Maya's voice / written and illustrated by Wen-Wen Cheng.

Poems on the deaf and dumb / W.R. Roe.

The Deaf and Dumb institution, Cabra, Ireland. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin after C. Geoghegan.

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Christ heals a dumb, mentally ill child. Woodcut.

The act of incorporation and by-laws of the Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-Minded Children.

Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Newport, Kentucky: view from the river. Coloured line engraving by Fenner Sears & Co., 1832, after G. Wall.

Cat's got your tongue? : a story for children afraid to speak / by Charles E. Schaefer ; illustrated by Judith Friedman.

The Institut National des Sourds-Muets, Paris: interior showing voters for the National Assembly. Wood engraving, 1871.

Entertainment in sign language for the deaf and dumb at the Hanover Square rooms, London. Wood engraving.

Specification of Bertram Mitford : communicating with deaf and dumb persons.

Maya's voice / written and illustrated by Wen-Wen Cheng.

Poems on the deaf and dumb / W.R. Roe.

The Deaf and Dumb institution, Cabra, Ireland. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin after C. Geoghegan.

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