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Title: Blind Deaf
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: William Wade
Subjects: Deafblindness
Publisher: Hecker Brothers
Contributing Library: American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., M. C. Migel Library
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eaf, and expressions of opinion onthe subject by editors of papers published at schoolsfor the deaf, and others. The following is an at-tempt to present the gist of these reports and com-ments : When the thought first occurred to the originalinvestigator, that the blind-deaf might read spellingas they do signs, he tried the experiment with KatieMcGirr. First he spelled the alphabet slowly inher hand, and then spelled a word slowly with herhand on his wrist, feeling the motion of the cordsthere. In the first trial Katie missed only one letterin a word of five, being unable to distinguish be-tween i and y. This failure may have been, aswas suggested, owing to the tendon of the thumbcoming between the points of her thumb and littlefinger. Later, upon receiving a suggestion for a similarexperiment, Miss Lyon, teacher of Leslie Oren, atthe Ohio Institution, tried her pupil. She gave himno preliminary instruction nor explanation of whatshe intended to do, or of what was expected of him. 116
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She put his hands around her wrist, spelled Kiss The me, and Love me, both of which Leslie did in- Blind-Deaf stantly. Who is sitting beside you? was then spelled, and he responded You. Mr. Wade was sitting- at his side, while Miss Lyon, who did the spelling-, was directly in front of him. It was thought that the error in his reply was due to his not fully comprehending the meaning of beside and not to failure to understand the words which were spelled. The fact that Katie McGirr, very expert in allkinds of reading by touch and with all her years ofexperience, did not do so well as Leslie Oren at thefirst trial, was puzzling to Mr. Wade, but this ex-planation presented itself: Leslie was perfectlyfamiliar with his teachers spelling, while Katiewas not accustomed to Mr. Wades. In order to de-termine the matter, the latter requested Miss Bar-rager, Katies teacher, to experiment more fully.The result is given in a letter from Miss Barragerto Mr. Wade, November 23, 1903, which was laterpr

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