Deaf Sentence Examples

He turned a deaf ear when they pressed for details.

Ryland's pleading fell on deaf ears.

Do deaf children ever learn to speak?

My attempt at lightening the situation fell on deaf ears.

The strangeness and absurdity of these replies arise from the fact that modern history, like a deaf man, answers questions no one has asked.

Tommy Stringer, who appears in several of the following letters, became blind and deaf when he was four years old.

Poor Edith is blind and deaf and dumb.

All deaf people naturally gesticulate.

The crowning complication in the effect of Der fliegende Hollander, Tannhauser and Lohengrin on the musical thought of the 10th century was that the unprecedented fusion of their musical with their dramatic contents revealed some of the meaning of serious music to ears that had been deaf to the classics.

After these fits of irritability her face would grow yellow, and her maids knew by infallible symptoms when Belova would again be deaf, the snuff damp, and the countess' face yellow.

This natural exchange of ideas is denied to the deaf child.

They were wholly deaf to my arguments, or failed to perceive their force, and fell into a strain of invective that was irresistible.

A child was in fact delivered to her agents, but he was a deaf mute.

Once in a while we sat together on the pond, he at one end of the boat, and I at the other; but not many words passed between us, for he had grown deaf in his later years, but he occasionally hummed a psalm, which harmonized well enough with my philosophy.

Speranski related how at the Council that morning a deaf dignitary, when asked his opinion, replied that he thought so too.

Laurent, to protect himself from the consequences of the substitution, replaced the wooden figure by a deaf mute, who was presently exchanged for the scrofulous child of the death certificate.

At St Francis, adjoining the city on the south, is the seminary of St Francis of Sales (Roman Catholic), and St Joseph's institute for deaf mutes (Roman Catholic).

Frederick is the seat of the Maryland school for the deaf and dumb and of the Woman's College of Frederick (1893; formerly the Frederick Female Seminary, opened in 1843), which in 1907-1908 had 212 students, 121 of whom were in the Conservatory of Music. Francis Scott Key and Roger Brooke Taney were buried here, and a beautiful monument erected to the memory of Key stands at the entrance to Mount Olivet cemetery.

There it was arranged that I should go to the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in New York City.

Jehoash, it is said, turned away from Yahweh after the death of Jehoiada and gave heed to the Judaean nobles, " wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for their guilt," prophets were sent to bring them back but they turned a deaf ear.

Charitable institutions include a deaf and dumb asylum (1875-1886), the Metropolitan infirmary for children (1841), and the royal sea-bathing infirmary, established in 1791 and enlarged through the munificence of Sir Erasmus Wilson in 1882.

There are numerous other hospitals both general and special, a foundling hospital dating from the 13th century (Santa Maria degli Innocenti), an institute for the blind, one for the deaf and dumb, &c. Most of the hospitals and other charitable institutions are endowed, but the endowments are supplemented by private contributions.

The city is the seat of the Academy of the Holy Names (opened in 1865 as St Peter's Academy), of the State Custodial Asylum for unteachable idiots, of the Central New York Institution for Deaf Mutes (1875), and of the Oneida County Home.

Its principal buildings are an old palace, formerly the residence of the bishops of Augsburg and now government offices, a royal gymnasium, a Latin school with a library of 75,000 volumes, seven churches (six Roman Catholic), two episcopal seminaries, a Capuchin monastery, a Franciscan convent and a deaf and dumb asylum.

They called attention to the fact that the Germans in earlier days were deaf to such requests; they saw in them a " dismemberment of the country," and asserted that in the central public departments of Vienna, too, the Czechs did not occupy a number of official positions in proportion to their population.

Turning a deaf ear Rome.

A deaf lady visited her GP complaining of pain in her stomach and was given antacids as treatment.

Unfortunately all the warnings and admonitions of the pope fell on deaf ears, though he himself parted with his mitre and plate in order to equip a fleet against the Turks.

Dunmore is the seat of the state oral school for the deaf.

He became deaf after the percussion from the loud crash.

The number of aliens, of the deaf and dumb and the blind were also gathered.

Eight private institutions for the care or the care and instruction of deaf mutes and one for the care of the blind are supported mainly by the state.

There are, moreover, industrial schools, orphanages and institutions for the deaf and dumb and blind.

He unexpectedly gained the accession of many Jews by race who were indifferent to the religious aspect of Judaism, but he quite failed to convince the leaders of Jewish thought, who from first to last remained (with such conspicuous exceptions as Nordau and Zangwill) deaf to his pleading.

Persons who when young could hear the squeaks of bats may be quite deaf to them when older.

These are a state prison at Deer Lodge, managed by contract; a reform school at Miles City, an industrial school at Butte, an orphans' home at Twin Bridges, the soldiers' home at Columbia Falls, a school for deaf and blind at Boulder, and an insane asylum at Warm Springs, managed by contract.

The Milwaukee public school system comprises four high schools, a high school of trades, and in addition to the ordinary grades, a kindergarten department and day schools for the blind and deaf.

To the advances of the French government he at first turned a deaf ear, but when the rapprochement between the two countries was effected with little or no co-operation on his part, he utilized it for restraining France and promoting Russian interests.

Educational facilities are also furnished by the state through university and school of mines at University, near Grand Forks, normal schools (opened in 1890) at Valley City and Mayville, an agricultural college and experiment station (1890) at Fargo, a normal and industrial school (opened in 1899) at Ellendale, a school for the deaf (1890) at Devils Lake, a scientific school (opened in 1903) at Wahpeton, and a school of forestry at Bottineau.

In the city are a public library, the Beverly hospital, the New England industrial school for deaf mutes (organized, 1876; incorporated, 1879), and the Beverly historical society (1891), which owns a large colonial house, in which there is a valuable historical collection.

But his eloquence offended the narrow and cramped particularism of those little democratic cities, deaf to the sentiment of the common interest.

There are a deaf and dumb institution at Danville (1823), an institution for the blind at Louisville (1842), and an institution for the education of feeble-minded children at Frankfort (1860).

The state also makes annual appropriations for the care and education of blind and deaf and dumb persons in institutions outside of the state.

An institution for the maintenance and education of children born deaf and dumb is maintained at Claremont, near Glasnevin (1816).

Charitable institutions of a high character are also prominent, among which are the Hospicio, which includes an asylum for the aged, infirm, blind, deaf and dumb, foundlings and orphans, a primary school for both sexes, and a girls' training school, and the Hospital de San Miguel de Belen, which is a hospital, an insane asylum, and a school for little children.

To those who began to despair of success, and advised him to conclude peace on almost any terms so as to avoid greater disasters, he turned a deaf ear, and brought the campaign to a successful conclusion; but when his more headstrong advisers urged him to insist on terms which would probably have produced a conflict with Great Britain and Austria, he resolved, after some hesitation, to make the requisite concessions.

There are a number of charitable institutions devoted to the education of orphans, the blind and the deaf and dumb, which are admirably equipped and administered.

Amontons, who through disease was rendered almost completely deaf in early youth, died at Paris on the II th of October 1705.

There are also two naval academies, asylums for the deaf and dumb, and numerous charitable institutions.

More than eighty churches, many of them of architectural value, are found scattered over the city, while the General Hospital, Women's Home, Children's Home, Children's Aid Shelter and Deaf and Dumb Institute speak of the benevolence of the citizens.

Amongst other buildings are the episcopal palace, with a museum of Roman and medieval antiquities, several convents, and the principal deaf and dumb institute in the country.

He is described as "a very strong lusty man," of uncouth manners and appearance, not so deaf as he pretended, of reserved and temperate habits, not avaricious and a despiser of honours.

He published many scientific monographs, including a memoir on the formation of a deaf variety in the human race.

The government also maintains an institute for the deaf and dumb at Belleville and for the blind at Brantford.

There are several educational institutions, including a business college, a convent, and a government institute for the deaf and dumb.

Here also are the state normal and model schools (1855), the state library, housed in the capitol, the state school for deaf mutes, the state home for girls, one of the two state hospitals for the insane (opened in 1848), the state arsenal - the building being the old state prison - the state prison (1836), St Francis hospital (1874), Mercer hospital (1892), the William McKinley memorial hospital (1887), the city hospital, two children's day nurseries, the Friends' home, the Union industrial home (for destitute children), the Florence Crittenton home (1895), the indigent widows' and single women's home (1854), the Har Sinai charity society, the home for friendless children, and the society of St Vincent de Paul.

In modern times the word asylum has come to mean an institution providing shelter or refuge for any class of afflicted or destitute persons, such as the blind, deaf and dumb, &c., but more particularly the insane.

Council Bluffs is the seat of the Western Iowa Business College, and of the Iowa school for the deaf.

The others were the State Psychopathic Institute at Kankakee (established in 1907 as part of the insane service) for systematic study of mental and nervous diseases; one at Lincoln having charge of feebleminded children; two institutions for the blind - a school at Jacksonville and an industrial home at Marshall Boulevard and 19th Street, Chicago; a home for soldiers and sailors (Quincy), one for soldiers' orphans (Normal), and one for soldiers' widows (Wilmington); a school for the deaf (Jacksonville), and an eye and ear infirmary (Chicago).

The State Central Hospital for the Insane (opened in 1851), the State School for the deaf (established in 1839, opened in 1845, and the first charitable institution of the state) and the State School for the Blind (1849) are also in Jacksonville.

He marched at the head of 35,000 men into northern Italy, and from Rimini issued his famous proclamation in favour of Italian independence, which at the time fell on deaf ears (March 30th, 1815).

Besides the elementary schools there are at Manila the Philippine Normal School, the Philippine School of Arts and Trades, the Philippine School of Commerce and the school for the instruction of the deaf and blind, and in 1908 the Philippine legislature passed an act for the establishment of a university of the Philippines.

For the care of the deaf and blind there is the Virginia School for Deaf and Blind (1839), at Staunton, and the Virginia School for Coloured Deaf and Blind Children (1908), at Newport News.

Each school for the deaf and blind is managed by a board of visitors appointed by the governor with the concurrence of the Senate.

The state board of education consists of the governor; the attorneygeneral; the superintendent of public instruction, who is ex officio its president; three experienced educators chosen quadrennially by the Senate from members of the faculties of the University of Virginia, the Virginia Military Institute, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the State Female Normal School at Farmville, the School for the Deaf and Blind, and the College of William and Mary; and two division superintendents, one from a county and one from a city, chosen biennially by the other members of the board.

Of charitable and reformatory institutions a soldiers' and sailors' home (1889) is maintained at Monte Vista, a school for the deaf and blind (1874) at Colorado Springs, an insane asylum (1879) at Pueblo, a home for dependent and neglected children (1895) at Denver, an industrial school for girls (1887) near Morrison, and for boys (1881) at Golden, a reformatory (1889) at Buena Vista, and a penitentiary (1868) at Canyon City.

It is attractively situated, has a fine public school system, including a high school, a manual training school, a domestic science department, and kindergarten and day schools for the deaf.

The state maintains an insane asylum at Las Vegas, a deaf and dumb asylum and penitentiary at Santa Fe, an institute for the blind at Almagordo, a reform school at El Rito and a miners' hospital at Raton.

They found him deaf to all arguments.

He is the author of many miscellaneous treatises on science, music, the art of teaching the deaf and dumb, &c. But his chief work, the labour of fully twenty years, is entitled Dell' origine, progressi, e stato attuale d'ogni Letteratura (7 vols., Parma, 1782-1799).

The benevolent institutions include the general hospital, founded in 1817, removed to the present site in 1867, extended by the addition of two wings in 1878 and of an eye department in 1890; a convalescent home for twenty patients from the hospital only (1903); the Royal Cambrian Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, established in 1847 at Aberystwyth, removed to Swansea in 1850, and several times enlarged, so as to have at present accommodation for ninety-eight pupils; the Swansea and South Wales Institution for the Blind, established in 1865 and now under the Board of Education; the Swansea and South Wales Nursing Institute (1873), providing a home for nurses in the intervals of their employment; a nursing institution (1902) for nursing the sick poor in their own homes, affiliated with the Queen's Jubilee Institute of London; the Sailors' Home (1864); a Sailors' Rest (1885); and a Mission to Seamen's Institute (1904).

Boise is the seat of the state school for the deaf and blind (1906), and just outside the city limits are the state soldiers' home and the state penitentiary.

The care of all defectives was let by contract to other states until 1906, when a state school for the deaf and blind was opened in Boise.

The state supports the Michigan Asylum for the Insane (opened 1859), at Kalamazoo; the Eastern Michigan Asylum for the Insane (opened 1878), at Pontiac; the Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane (opened 1885), at Traverse City; the Michigan Asylum for the Dangerous and Criminal Insane (established 1885), at Ionia; the Upper Peninsula Hospital for the Insane, at Newberry; a Psychopathic Hospital (established 1907), at Ann Arbor; a State Sanatorium (established 1905), at Howell; the Michigan State Prison (established 1839), at Jackson; the Michigan Reformatory (established 1887), at Ionia; the State House of Correction and Branch Prison (established 1885), at Marquette; the Industrial School for Boys, at Lansing; the Industrial Home for Girls (established 1879), near Adrian; the State Public School (opened 1874), at Coldwater, a temporary home for dependent children until homes in families can be found for them; the School for the Deaf (established 1854), at Flint; the School for the Blind, at Lansing; an Employment Institution for the Blind (established 1903), at Saginaw; the Home for the Feeble Minded and Epileptic (established 1893), at Lapeer; and the Michigan Soldiers' Home (established 1885), at Grand Rapids.

Other institutions at Danville are Caldwell College for women (1860; Presbyterian), and the Kentucky state institution for deaf mutes (1823).

The state supports the following charitable and correctional institutions all under the inspection of a State Department of Charities and Correction (1905); hospitals for the insane at Trenton and Morris Plains; a training-school for feeble-minded children (partly supported by the state) and a home for feeble-minded women at Vineland; a sanatorium for tuberculous diseases at Glen Gardner; a village for epileptics, with a farm of 700 acres, near Skillman, Somerset county; a state home (reform school) for boys near Jamesburg, Middlesex county, and for girls in Ewing township, near Trenton; a state reformatory for criminals sixteen to thirty years of age, near Rahway; a state prison at Trenton; a home for disabled soldiers at Kearney,' Hudson county; a home for disabled soldiers, sailors and their wives at Vineland"; and a school for the deaf at Trenton.

Four miles south of the city, at Cedar Spring, is the South Carolina Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Blind, founded as a private institution in 1849 and taken over by the state in 1857.

Homer, he said, was dumb to him, while he was deaf to Homer; and he could only approach the Iliad in Boccaccio's rude Latin version.

The Western Pennsylvania Institution for the instruction of the deaf and dumb (1876), in Edgewood Park, is in part maintained by the state.

There is a state school for the deaf and the blind (1884) at Ogden.

The patient is deaf, but complains of ringing in the ears, which may assume various forms, especially in musical people.

His eldest son Alessandro being deaf and dumb, the succession devolved on his second son Odoardo (1612-1646), who fought on the French side in the war against Spain.

No person not of full age, imperfectly educated, stupid, blind, deaf, deformed or otherwise defective in mind or body, or for any reason whatsoever unfit to discharge the duties or unworthy to represent the manhood of the nation, could be king, even though he were the eldest son of the preceding king.

The state was one of the first to establish schools for the deaf and the blind.

Its Institution for the Education of the Deaf was established in 1844, and its Institution for the Education of the Blind in 1847, both being in Indianapolis.

The court was frivolous, vacillating, stone deaf and stone blind; the gentry were amiable, but distinctly bent to the very last on holding to their privileges, and they were wholly devoid both of the political experience that only comes of practical responsibility for public affairs, and of the political sagacity that only comes of political experience.

There are twenty-two day schools for the deaf.

Eisenach has a school of forestry, a school of design, a classical school (Gymnasium) and Modern school (Realgymnasium), a deaf and dumb school, a teachers' seminary, a theatre and a Wagner museum.

The Plain was deaf to Robespierre's appeal.

The state has a hospital for the insane at Fort Supply, the Whitaker Orphans' Home at Pryor Creek, the Oklahoma School for the Blind at Fort Gibson and the Oklahoma School for the Deaf at Sulphur; and the legislature of 1908 appropriated money for the East Oklahoma Hospital for the Insane at Vinita, a School for the Feeble-Minded at Enid, a State Training School for Boys at Wynnewood and a State Reformatory (at Granite, Greer county) for first-time convicts between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five.

There is an institution for the deaf, dumb and blind (1849, since 1857 a state institution) at Cedar Springs, and a state hospital for the insane, founded in 1821 at Columbia by Samuel Farrow (1760-1824) and opened in 1828.

He also had the management of the university library, was director of the institute for the deaf and dumb, and filled many educational and municipal offices.

South-west of these buildings, on the other side of the Johannisthal Park, are clustered the medical institutes and hospitals of the university - the infirmary, clinical and other hospitals, the physico-chemical institute, pathological institute, physiological institute, ophthalmic hospital, pharmacological institute, the schools of anatomy, the chemical laboratory, the zoological institute, the physicomineralogical institute, the botanical garden and also the veterinary schools, deaf and dumb asylum, agricultural college and astronomical observatory.

The state almost entirely supports the Connecticut school for imbeciles, at Lakeville; the American school for the deaf, in Hartford; the oral school for the deaf, 1 The constitution prescribes that " the privileges of an elector shall be forfeited by a conviction of bribery, forgery, perjury, duelling, fraudulent bankruptcy, theft or other offense for which an infamous punishment is inflicted," but this disability may in any case be removed by a two-thirds vote of each house of the general assembly.

Charities, &c. - The charitable and penal institutions of the state consist of the Central Hospital for the Insane near Nashville; the Eastern Hospital for the Insane near Knoxville; the Western Hospital for the Insane near Bolivar; the Tennessee School for the blind at Nashville; the Tennessee Deaf and Dumb School at Knoxville; the Confederate Soldiers' Home near Nashville, on the " Hermitage," the estate formerly belonging to Andrew Jackson; and the Penitentiary and the Tennessee Industrial School, both at Nashville; and in 1907 the legislature passed an Act for the establishment in Davidson county of the Tennessee Reformatory for boys.

The Schools for the Blind and the Deaf and Dumb are each managed by a board of trustees, vacancies in which are filled by the remaining trustees with the concurrence of the legislature.

Unsolved murders, robberies, burglaries and all matter of crimes occurred daily but Howie turned a deaf ear to expanded involvement.

You deaf now, too?

All her prayers had fallen on deaf ears — or as Alex had once said; God was answering.

David Wise David Wise, Treasurer, was born severely deaf and has qualified as a chartered certified accountant.

He currently has no contact with deaf adults and sign in Zanzibar is not well developed.

Tone Deaf Amigos play an interesting breed of music having allsorts on stage including their dad's PC, well worth keeping an eye on.

The hearing children of deaf parents often grow up bilingual too, learning a sign language at home.

Many deaf children use a loop system with their television.

Deaf and hearing classmates at the school get the British Sign Language qualification together.

The type of alarm clock your deaf child chooses will depend on how heavy a sleeper they are.

The signing environment With a substantial proportion of deaf staff, effective communication within the team was a key issue.

One of the best confessors I ever met was almost totally deaf.

All deaf children to have a positive deaf children to have a positive Deaf identity.

Wales have a strong Forum now, set up in 1995 by deaf people for deaf people for deaf people in their area.

Were they born deaf, or did they become deaf?

And is it really true that you are going deaf?

For example, a bank should ask a profoundly deaf person what sort of communication support they prefer.

Some prelingually deaf people have English as a preferred language and rely on speechreading.

Recently, a very few congenitally deaf children have been implanted with an auditory brainstem implant in Europe.

With the totally deaf, you're on yer own.

The ' sermons ' would fall on deaf ears.

None of the other professions currently requires those working with Deaf people to have fluent BSL skills.

Moreover, as a clinician who was born deaf she is the ideal go-between for the hearing and deaf worlds.

The new name is probably the worst-kept secret around and justifies us saying that the deaf community grapevine moves faster than Australian bushfire.

Parliament was deaf; the Press, with but few exception, was callous; the public conscience seemed hardened as a nether millstone.

This functional illiteracy means that even the nuances of stories from basic tabloid newspapers are beyond the reach of many deaf adults.

I simply do not believe that the experience of meeting someone who is deaf induces spontaneous lobotomy in the majority of the adult population.

Q - I became partially deaf as a result of the german measles at the age of eleven.

A deaf mute, being asked, " What is forgiveness?

Yes glad in office not on floor, too noisy, people go deaf, have to shout.

Deaf students fail in Britain's grossly overcrowded public sector classrooms.

Alarm clocks Alarm clocks often use a vibrating pad or flashing lights (or both) to wake up deaf children.

Your sponsorship is covering all areas of his training, together with his future with our deaf recipient.

Her other ongoing projects include research about deaf people's use of the internet and Somali refugee and asylum seeker children.

Margaret also caught scarlet fever and although she survived it left her deaf (she recovered her hearing at fourteen ).

At the age of five Goodricke had contracted scarlet fever which left him totally deaf.

The day is open to deaf young people and their hearing siblings Full communication support will be provided.

Deaf Awareness week Why not teach your class finger spelling?

These English language subtitles can be very useful for deaf people who want to watch the DVD.

Deaf Identities review 34 Chris Payton tod, Lancashire encourages ToDs to include this volume on their bookshelves and university reading lists.

There remains a great deal of work to be done to determine the characteristics of deaf wellness.

The indoor institutions are the more important in regard to endowment, and consist of hospitals for the infirm (a number of these are situated at the seaside); of hospitals for chronic and incurable diseases; of orphan asylums; of poorhouses and shelters for beggars; of infant asylums or institutes for the first education of children under six years of age; of lunatic asylums; of homes for the deaf and dumb; and of institutes for the blind.

Italy, who had made the integrity of the Ottoman empire a cardinal point of her Eastern policy, felt this change of the Mediterranean status quo the more severely inasmuch as, in order not to strain her relations with France, she had turned a deaf ear to Austrian, Russian and German advice to prepare to occupy Tunisia in agreement with Great Britain.

Among the state institutions in Columbus are the university (see below), the penitentiary, a state hospital for the insane, the state school for the blind, and the state institutions for the education of the deaf and dumb and for feeble-minded youth.

The deaf, dumb and blind are cared for at its expense in the California institution for these defectives.

Berkeley is the seat of the California state university (see California, University Of), opened in 1873; the inter-related Berkeley Bible Seminary (1896, Disciples of Christ); Pacific Theological Seminary (established in 1866 at Oakland, in 1901 at Berkeley, Congregational); Seminary of the Pacific Coast Baptist Theological Union, and Unitarian Theological School - all associated with the University of California; and the state institution for the deaf, dumb and blind.

Richemont's tale that the woman Simon, who was genuinely attached to him, smuggled him out in a basket, is simple and more credible, and does not necessarily invalidate the story of the subsequent operations with the deaf mute and the scrofulous patient, Laurent in that case being deceived from the beginning, but it renders them extremely unlikely.

There are a school for the Blind, Deaf, and Dumb (1885) at St.

These were at first purely symbolical, meaningless to any but a Christian eye, such as the Vine, the Good Shepherd, the Sheep, the Fisherman, the Fish, &c. Even the personages of ancient mythology were pressed into the service of early Christian art, and Orpheus, taming the wild beasts with his lyre, symbolized the peaceful sway of Christ; and Ulysses, deaf to the Siren's song, represented the Believer triumphing over the allurements of sensual pleasure.

The charitable and correctional institutions of Minnesota have been since 1901 under the supervision of a State Board of Control consisting of three paid members appointed by the governor and serving for terms of six years; this board supplanted an unpaid Board of Corrections and Charities established in 1883, and the boards of managers of separate institutions (except the schools for the deaf and the blind at Faribault, and the state public school at Owatonna) and of groups of institutions were abolished.

The state institutions consist of state hospitals for the insane at St Peter (1866), at Rochester (1877), established originally as a state inebriate asylum under a law taxing liquor dealers for that purpose, which was subsequently held to be unconstitutional, at Fergus Falls (1887), at Anoka (1900) and at Hastings (1900); the state institute for defectives at Faribault, consisting of the schools for the deaf (1863), blind (1874) and feeble-minded (1879); the state public school for dependent and neglected children at Owatonna (1886); a sanatorium for consumptives at Walker; a hospital for indigent, crippled or deformed children (1907) at St Paul; the state training school for boys near Red Wing; a similar industrial school for girls (established separately in 1907) at Sauk Center; the state reformatory at St Cloud (1887), intermediate between the training school and the state prison, for first offenders between the ages of sixteen and thirty years, in which indeterminate sentences and a parole system are in operation; the state prison at Stillwater (1851), in which there is a parole system and a graded system of diminution of sentence for good conduct, and in which, up to 1895, prisoners were leased under contract (especially to the Minnesota Thresher Company), and since 1895 have been employed in the manufacture of shoes and of binding twine, and in providing for the needs of the prison population; and the state soldiers home occupying fifty-one acres adjoining Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis.

Lamarck, Treviranus, Erasmus Dar win, Goethe, and Saint-Hilaire preached to deaf ears, for they advanced the theory that living beings had developed by a slow process of transmutation in successive generations from simpler ancestors, and in the beginning from simplest formless matter, without being able to demonstrate any existing mechanical causes by which such development must necessarily be brought about.

Fortunately Germany, which at the beginning of the century was delivered over to Brownism and vitalism and was deaf to Bichat, was rescued from this sort of barrenness by the brilliant experimental work of Claude Bernard and Pasteur in France - work which, as regards the attenuated virus, was a development of that of Edward Jenner, and indeed of Schwann, Robert Koch worthily following Pasteur with his work on the bacillus of anthrax and with his discovery of that of tuberculosis; and by the cellular doctrine and abundant labours in pathology of Virchow.

The case of Helen Keller is the most extraordinary ever known in the education of blind deaf-mutes (see Deaf And Dumb ad fin.), her acquirements including several languages and her general culture being exceptionally wide.

There are insane asylums at Austin (the State Lunatic Asylum), San Antonio (the Southwestern Insane Asylum), and Terrell (North Texas Hospital for the Insane); the Texas School for the Deaf (1857), an institution for deaf, dumb and blind coloured youths (1889), a School for the Blind (1856), and a home for dependent Confederate soldiers, at Austin, a state orphan home (1889) at Corsicana, an epileptic colony at Abilene, and a state reformatory (1889) for boys under seventeen years at Gatesville.

There are institutes for the blind at Overbrook and Pittsburg, and for the deaf and dumb at Philadelphia and Edgewood Park, an oral school for the deaf at Scranton, a home for the training of deaf children at Philadelphia, a soldiers' and sailors' home at Erie (1886), a soldiers' orphans' industrial school (1895) at Scotland, Franklin county, the Thaddeus.

These latter exist in wondrous number and variety, exercising every imaginable form of good work - education, both primary and secondary; the care of hospitals, orphanages, penitentiaries, prisons; of asylums for the blind, the deaf and dumb, the insane; of refuges for the aged poor and the destitute.

He was deaf also to all the appeals against the other forms of his boundless extravagance which Colbert, with all his deference towards his sovereign, bravely ventured to make.'

Other important institutions at Baton Rouge are a State Agricultural Experiment Station, asylums and schools for the deaf and dumb, for the blind, and for orphans, and the state penitentiary.

Thus, the signs used to ask a deaf and dumb child about his meals and lessons, or to communicate with a savage met in the desert about game or enemies, belong to codes of gesture-signals identical in principle, and to a great extent independent both of nationality and education; there is even a natural syntax, or order of succession, in such gesturesigns.

Among the state charitable and reformatory institutions are state hospitals for the insane at Topeka and Osawatomie and a hospital for epileptics at Parsons; industrial reform schools for girls at Beloit, for boys at Topeka, and for criminals under twenty-five at Hutchinson; a penitentiary at Lansing; a soldiers' orphans' home at Atchison and a soldiers' home at Dodge City; and schools for feeble-minded youth at Winfield, for the deaf at Olathe, and for the blind at Kansas City.

James was deaf to all intercession in her favour, and is reported to have answered the queen when pleading for her that "she had eaten of the forbidden fruit."

State penal and charitable institutions include soldiers' and sailors' homes at Grand Island and Milford, an Institute for the Blind at Nebraska City (1875), an Institute for the Deaf and Dumb at Omaha (1867), an Institute for Feeble Minded Youth at Beatrice (1885), an Industrial School for Juvenile Delinquents (boys) at Kearney (1879), a Girls' Industrial School at Geneva (1881), an Industrial Home at Milford (1887) for unfortunate and homeless girls guilty of a first offence, asylums or hospitals for the insane at Lincoln (1869), Norfolk (1886) and Hastings (1887), an Orthopedic Hospital (1905) for crippled, ruptured and deformed children and a state penitentiary (1867), both at Lincoln.

One who reads or talks to me spells with his hand, using the single-hand manual alphabet generally employed by the deaf.

But I do not understand how he ever thought a blind and deaf child of eleven could have invented them.

I wondered more and more, while Burke's masterly speech rolled on in mighty surges of eloquence, how it was that King George and his ministers could have turned a deaf ear to his warning prophecy of our victory and their humiliation.

He is never quite so happy as when he has a little deaf child in his arms.

The other day, I met a deaf Norwegian gentleman, who knows Ragnhild Kaata and her teacher very well, and we had a very interesting conversation about her.

I also know a child at the Institution for the Deaf in Mississippi.

She said that Maud was born deaf and lost her sight when she was only three months old, and that when she went to the Institution a few weeks ago, she was quite helpless.

A gentleman in Philadelphia has just written to my teacher about a deaf and blind child in Paris, whose parents are Poles.

The manual alphabet is that in use among all educated deaf people.

The deaf person with sight looks at the fingers of his companion, but it is also possible to feel them.

Miss Sullivan and others who live constantly with the deaf can spell very rapidly--fast enough to get a slow lecture, not fast enough to get every word of a rapid speaker.

If more people knew this, and the friends and relatives of deaf children learned the manual alphabet at once the deaf all over the world would be happier and better educated.

Like every deaf or blind person, Miss Keller depends on her sense of smell to an unusual degree.

The sense of smell has fallen into disrepute, and a deaf person is reluctant to speak of it.

He was a great philanthropist, interested especially in the education of all defectives, the feeble-minded, the blind, and the deaf.

Teachers of the deaf proved a priori that what Miss Sullivan had done could not be, and some discredit was reflected on her statements, because they were surrounded by the vague eloquence of Mr. Anagnos.

I hear there is a deaf and blind child being educated at the Baltimore Institution.

Dr. Bell writes that Helen's progress is without a parallel in the education of the deaf, or something like that and he says many nice things about her teacher.

We visited a little school for the deaf.

She ran her fingers along the lines, finding the words she knew and guessing at the meaning of others, in a way that would convince the most conservative of educators that a little deaf child, if given the opportunity, will learn to read as easily and naturally as ordinary children.

Miss Keller's education, however, is so fundamentally a question of language teaching that it rather includes the problems of the deaf than limits itself to the deaf alone.

Books are the storehouse of language, and any child, whether deaf or not, if he has his attention attracted in any way to printed pages, must learn.

And the fact remains that she was taught by a method of teaching language to the deaf the essential principles of which are clearly expressed in Miss Sullivan's letters, written while she was discovering the method and putting it successfully into practice.

And it can be applied by any teacher to any healthy deaf child, and in the broadest interpretation of the principles, can be applied to the teaching of language of all kinds to all children.

Any deaf child or deaf and blind child in good health can be taught.

I know that this idea will be vigorously combated by those who conduct schools for the deaf.

To be sure, the deaf school is the only thing possible for children educated by the State.

But it is evident that precisely what the deaf child needs to be taught is what other children learn before they go to school at all.

That is just what the teacher of the deaf child must be, a child ready to play and romp, and interested in all childish things.

I am told that Miss Keller speaks better than most other deaf people.

Miss Sullivan's account in her address at Chautauqua, in July, 1894, at the meeting of The American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, is substantially like Miss Keller's in points of fact.

I explained to her that some deaf children were taught to speak, but that they could see their teachers' mouths, and that that was a very great assistance to them.

Teachers of the deaf often express surprise that Helen's speech is so good when she has not received any regular instruction in speech since the first few lessons given her by Miss Fuller.

The acquiring of speech by untaught deaf children is always slow and often painful.

In the very nature of things, articulation is an unsatisfactory means of education; while the use of the manual alphabet quickens and invigorates mental activity, since through it the deaf child is brought into close contact with the English language, and the highest and most abstract ideas may be conveyed to the mind readily and accurately.

If you knew all the joy I feel in being able to speak to you to-day, I think you would have some idea of the value of speech to the deaf, and you would understand why I want every little deaf child in all this great world to have an opportunity to learn to speak.

The disadvantages of being deaf and blind were overcome and the advantages remained.

She excels other deaf people because she was taught as if she were normal.

The substance of thought is language, and language is the one thing to teach the deaf child and every other child.

Her other ongoing projects include research about deaf people 's use of the internet and Somali refugee and asylum seeker children.

It is salutary to compare the attention paid to teaching BSL to deaf pupils with that paid to teaching English to hearing pupils.

Margaret also caught scarlet fever and although she survived it left her deaf (she recovered her hearing at fourteen).

All the other video material shows deaf children in segregated settings.

The Bexley Deaf Center were able to supply a sign language tutor.

Deaf Identities review 34 Chris Payton ToD, Lancashire encourages ToDs to include this volume on their bookshelves and university reading lists.

Mobile videophones are on the horizon, where Deaf people will be able to communicate on the move in BSL.

Backs were turned on the youth, leaving him only Alice and a deaf elderly man with wonky teeth.

They may not be deaf, blind, mentally disabled, have deformed or dysfunctional limbs, face, or trunk, or have AIDS or other infectious diseases.

One theory about cat purring sounds is that mother cats purr so that their blind and deaf kittens can find them to nurse.

Cats with one amber and one blue eye often have hearing problems and may be deaf.

If you are deaf or hard of hearing, please call the Deaf Outreach Program at (800)572-2686 (TDD/TTY), or (512) 460-6417 (TDD/TTY).

Tym again tried to drive home the point about the time constraints to Tom and Kelly, but his worries seemed to fall on deaf ears.

Washington State University offers several education programs, including Special Education, Deaf Education and English Language Learners (ELL) endorsements.

Not only did she seem to be clueless as to how weddings proceed, but she appeared to also be a bit deaf.

Unfortunately, the slightly deaf coordinator was not paying attention at all.

Colbert is deaf in his right ear, the result of damage during surgery that was meant to repair a perforated eardrum.

Matlin has been deaf since the age of 18 months, and this award set two records for the Academy.

She is not only the first deaf actress to win the award, but also the youngest winner in the Best Actress in a Leading Role category.

There are many deaf celebrities who have made their marks in acting, sports, and various arts and mediums.

The following deaf celebrities are well-known not only in their own fields, but to fans around the world.

Marlee Matlin is perhaps the most recognizable deaf actress in the world.

Marlee Matlin was not born deaf, but she lost her hearing with she was only eight months old.

She works tirelessly to promote deaf awareness and teach people about sign language.

In 1995, Heather Whitestone McCallum became the first deaf Miss America.

She is responsible for introducing countless numbers of kids to American sign language through this program, and her character is the longest ongoing television role ever held by a deaf person.

She became very active in theater and has created a number of groups for deaf actors and performers, including the Little Theater for the Deaf, which traveled around the world in the 1970s.

Christy Smith is famous for being the first deaf contestant on the reality TV show Survivor.

There have been many other deaf celebrities who have made an impact in their various fields.

There's no question that these deaf celebrities are just as talented as their hearing counterparts.

While the number of deaf stars increases every year, so does awareness and acceptance of those with hearing loss.

Also, studies indicate that 30 to 40 percent of all-white boxers are deaf in one or both ears.

Other puppies are born deaf, blind or with no eyes at all.

Service dogs, such as seeing eye dogs, alert dogs for the deaf, and companion dogs for the disabled are generally welcomed by most hotels, even those with an otherwise strict "no pets" policy.

Will he be able to hear me after the twenty-one day course of medication his vet prescribed or could he wind up deaf?

If your dog is deaf, you need to find alternative ways of communicating and training.

I am dealing with a Boston Terrier that is deaf.

I have a deaf six-month-old Jack Russell Terrier myself, and dealing with a deaf dog is new ground for me too.

Hearing teams are trained to alert deaf people to a variety of important sounds from doorbells to smoke alarms.

They may be trained to alert a deaf owner to the fact that the doorbell or phone is ringing, or a smoke alarm is going off.

Check out their version of Meaning in Tragedy, Falling Upon Deaf Ears and Behind Me Lies Another Fallen Soldier.

A TDD (telecommunications device for the deaf) reservations line is available at 877-833-6777.

The deaf child exposed only to speech will usually begin to babble ("baba, gaga") at a slightly later point than the hearing child.

It is not unusual for the profoundly deaf child at age four or five years to only have two-word spoken sentences.

It is only on entering specialized training programs for oral language development that the profoundly deaf child begins to acquire more spoken language.

Many deaf children learning English have pronounced difficulties in articulation and speech quality, especially if they are profoundly deaf, since they get no feedback in how they sound.

A child who has hearing for the first few years of life has an enormous advantage in speech quality and oral language learning over a child who is deaf from birth or within his or her first year.

Apart from speech difficulties, deaf children learning English often show considerable difficulty with the inflection and syntax of the language, which marks their writing as well as their speech.

The average deaf high school student often only reads at fourth grade level.

Many educators of the deaf now urge early compensatory programs in signed languages, because the deaf child shows no handicap in learning a visually based language.

Deaf children born to signing parents begin to "babble" in sign at the same point in infancy that hearing infants babble speech, and proceed from there to learn a fully expressive language.

However, only 10 percent of deaf children are born to deaf parents, so hearing parents must show a commitment and willingness to learn sign language.

Of these babies, 11,600 were born deaf; 3,580 were born blind; and 1,800 suffered severe developmental delay.

It is not that the child is deaf in general but that he or she has a specific difficulty discriminating some speech sounds.

Children with physical disabilities may require certain accommodations when taking the test, such as extra time for tasks, rest breaks, or instructions received in an alternate format (e.g., signing for a deaf child).

However, deaf children born to parents who use sign language develop infant babble and a fully expressive sign language at the same rate as hearing children.

Since only about 10 percent of deaf children are born to deaf parents, hearing parents can promote their deaf child's language development by learning and using sign language.

Cochlear implants may be used for profoundly deaf children aged two to six.

Children who lose their hearing after the first few years of life have far fewer language delays than children who are deaf from birth or who lose their hearing within the first year.

Patau syndrome affected individuals may be born either partially or totally deaf, and many are subject to recurring ear infections.

About 65 percent of these children are born deaf and an additional 12 percent become deaf before the age of three.

Cochlear implants may be used in children who are profoundly deaf and thus are not candidates for hearing aids.

Despite the benefits that the implant appears to offer, some hearing specialists and members of the deaf community still believe that the benefits may not outweigh the risks and limitations of the device.

After getting an implant, some people say they feel alienated from the deaf community, while at the same time not feeling fully a part of the hearing world.

The sounds and babblings of this stage of language development are identical in babies throughout the world, even among those who are profoundly deaf.

When the skeleton grows so thick that nerves are unable to pass between bones, the individual may have a nerve damage, paralysis, or become blind or deaf.

Is it really better to turn a deaf ear and a blind eye to the harsh realities of racism?

If you find that turning a deaf ear and a blind eye allows you to live a happier, more peaceful life, then I believe you should do what you must to stay happy and at peace.

There's a special TTY line for the deaf at 1-800-787-3224.

By not being available to him, his boasting about his fabulous weekend, his parties, and all the fun he is having fall on deaf ears.

Dating sites for deaf singles cater to a particular demographic that share a common experience.

That's why there are dating sites for deaf singles such as Deaf Passions, Deaf Singles Connection (also known as DSC by its users) or Deafs.com.

What makes these sites useful for deaf singles is simply the fact that most of the people on the site are familiar with the challenges of living and dating when one or both partners are deaf.

The problem with these "cookie-cutter" sites is that they do not always make it easy to address the full spectrum of needs that a deaf single person has.

The word "deaf" is used to encompass a wide range of subjective experiences, from being hard of hearing to being born with no eardrums.

Not all deaf people use sign language or read lips.

Deaf singles have found ways to adapt the sites to their needs, however.

For example, there are "community groups" available in a lot of the sites, and by joining particular groups people can indicate more clearly what being deaf means in their life.

While it's not technically a "dating" site, Deaf Spot is a portal website designed to provide a wide variety of resources for deaf people.

Deaf Spot also can help with planning dates, listing things like close-captioned movies and other events catering to the needs of the deaf or even a special toolbar for their browser.

Since many deaf people do not look at their condition as being a disability, these sites might not be as appealing to their target audience as they'd like to be.

The best websites for the deaf provide tools to help them meet the partner of their dreams without being condescending or limiting.

Whether deaf or hard of hearing, singles can reach out and touch each other on an intellectual and emotional level in the safe and convenient environment of the web.

They are not the most sympathetic sign in the zodiac, so your emotional woes may fall on deaf ears.

This new digital technology makes it possible for deaf and hard-of-hearing patrons to enjoy the movies without the need for assistive devices.

Starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, The Miracle Worker tells the story of Hellen Keller, a blind and deaf girl who is taught to communicate by a woman named Annie Sullivan.

Complaints about the service fall on deaf ears, leading users to think they have been scammed.

Due to the stress of the event, Tommy becomes semi-catatonic and goes blind, deaf and mute.

He opens his home to his followers and urges them to become deaf, blind and mute to understand his teachings.

Hung rode a tone deaf audition on American Idol into stardom.

Not only was she a tough competitor who almost made it to the end, but she also caught America's attention as the first deaf contestant.

I am deaf and I had no one else to look up to believe that it was possible.

For me the questions were more geared towards being deaf and how I can interact with hearing people, like what would I do if I was unable to understand the other contestants.

I became a role model for the deaf community all over the world.

Since Survivor I have produced a TV children show called Christy's Kids and established a nonprofit organization called Discovering Deaf Worlds.

This means deaf people who cannot read, write, speak, lip-read, or sign.

Discovering Deaf Worlds is an international nonprofit deaf advocacy organization that strives to help and empower people and communities in developing countries who are deaf and hard of hearing.

To find out more information about deaf awareness and how you can help, visit the websites for The World Federation of the Deaf and Discovering Deaf Worlds.

The Girl Scouts as an organization was founded by Juliette Gordon, a remarkable deaf woman who based it on England's "Girl Guides."

These standards also enable the content of sites to be more easily read by those with different needs for accessibility, such as the blind or the deaf.

Gladys must have thought most of the world was deaf as she was quite surprised when Dean politely scolded her.

She continued to take notes, as if Dean's scolding had fallen on deaf ears.

Utilizing the best of his detective training, he deduced she was as deaf as a turnip.

The faith which he put in the Chinese made him turn a deaf ear to the warnings which he received of the threatening Boxer movement in 1900.

Biennial appropriations are made for the support of the deaf and dumb, the blind and imbecile children at various institutions in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

The hindrance, however, to the general development of trade which the act involved aroused at once loud complaints, tO which Cromwell turned a deaf ear, continuing to seize Dutch ships trading in forbidden goods.

Stigmatized as a traitor, scorned and even imprisoned, he had not ceased to utter his warnings to deaf ears, although Zedekiah himself was perhaps open to persuasion.

The state institution for the education of the deaf and dumb (1854) and the state institution for the blind (1848) are at Jackson.

An institute for the deaf and dumb and blind was opened at Raleigh in 1845, and another for the deaf and dumb at Morganton in 1894; by a law of 1907 every deaf child.

The deaf mute was also concealed in the Temple.

The town has two Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, a gymnasium, a cadet academy and a deaf and dumb asylum.

The Michigan school for the deaf, established in 1854, and the Oak Grove hospital (private) for the treatment of mental and nervous diseases, are here.

Other institutions are the Royal hospital for sick children, the home for crippled children, the Royal maternity hospital, and the deaf and dumb asylum.

There are also many flourishing charities, including an excellent hospital and a school for the deaf and dumb.

Other institutions include higher elementary schools for pupils certified to be able to profit by higher instruction; and schools for blind, deaf and defective children.

The schools include the Gymnasium (founded in 1592 by the Protestant community as a Latin school), the Realgymnasium (founded in 1830, for "modern" subjects and Latin), the Oberrealschule and Realschule (founded 1893, the latter wholly "modern"), two girls' high schools, a girls' middle-class school, a large number of popular schools, a mechanics' and polytechnic school, a school of mechanics, an industrial drawing school, a commercial school, and a school for the deaf and dumb.

In addition to the institutions under the board of charities and corrections there are two under the board of education, and supported wholly or in part by the state, the School for the Deaf (1877) and the Home and School for Dependent and Neglected Children (1885) at Providence.

The charitable institutions include the county hospital, district asylum, a deaf and dumb home, the Kyle combination poorhouse, St John's refuge and industrial schools for boys and girls.

The institutions under its charge include a Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Davenport; a Soldiers' Home at Marshalltown; a College for the Blind at Vinton; a School for the Deaf at Council Bluffs; an Institution for Feeble-minded Children at Glenwood; an Industrial School for Boys at Eldora; an Industrial School for Girls at Mitchellville; and, at Oakdale, a Sanatorium for the Treatment of Tuberculosis.

The Horace Mann school in Boston, a public day school for the deaf, the New England industrial school for deaf mutes at Beverly and the Clarke school for the deaf at Northampton are maintained in part by the state.