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taught the speech and language which will fit them in most cases to attend schools for the hearing, and in all cases bring them into communication with others more freely than is possible in any other way. The home is on the cottage plan, and the children live a perfectly natural home life in every respect. It is amazing to notice how soon they realize that they are being made like other people, and their faces grow happier and brighter all the while as they advance. Similar ‘homes should be established everywhere where there are deaf children who need them.
X. B.—I have quoted in above address somewhat from my paper, “ Directions to Parents of Deaf Children for their Treatment from Infancy, in Order that They may Learn Speech and Lip-Reading,” read before the Medical Society of France in 1886, and published in the “Medical and Surgical Reporter ” of June 12, 1886.