Author: DELAND, FRED
Title: The Story of Lip Reading
Description: Washington, D. C.: Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, 1968. Second Printing; Hardcover. 5 5/8 x 8 3/4; xiii, 231 pages; Hard cover is brown with gold lettering on the spine. Boards have some scuffing, bumpng, rubbing; price stamp on front end paper, some pages with pencil underlining and margin notations. Pages are tight. Gift sticked on rear end paper, from Hearing Aid Industry Foundation, Inc. Revised and completed by Harriet Andrews Montague. 'The historical developments of the use of lipreading from 1500 A. D. To 1931 are described. Education of the deaf is traced from its beginnings in Spain to England, Belgium, Holland, and France with the use of quotations from literature and old documents. The lives and works of Charles Michel de l'Epee and Samuel Heinicke, the beginning of organized work for the deaf and of the oral method in America, the first teachers of lipreading to adults, the first speechreading conference, the works of Martha E. Bruhn, Edward B. Nitchie, Cora Elsie, Rose Kinsie, and the Jena method are discussed. A consideration of the development of organizations to help the hearing-impaired is followed by a discussion of lipreading for the hard-of-hearing child.'. Very Good- .

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