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- Title
Deafness and Holiness Home Missions, Deaf Congregations, and Natural Language 1860-1890.
- Authors
Pemberton, Neil
- Abstract
The article discusses the perceptions and beliefs of missionaries who testified to the lives and communities of deaf adults using sign language in late-19th century England. The author states that in the late 1860s oralist reformers led a campaign to exclude signed languages from the classroom and replace them entirely with speech training and lip-reading. The author talks about residential, charitable schools for deaf children where wealthier students were given a better education. The establishment of the Royal Association for the Deaf and Dumb is mentioned. The article also analyzes the emerging consciousness of this deaf community.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; EDUCATION of deaf children; DEAF people; SIGN language; ENGLISH Christian missions; VICTORIAN Period, Great Britain, 1837-1901; HISTORY; SOCIETIES
- Publication
Victorian Review, 2009, Vol 35, Issue 2, p65
- ISSN
0848-1512
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/vcr.2009.0050