The deaf; their position in society and the provision for their education in the United States . Copyright, 1914,By harry best. Published April, 1914. TO THE DEAF OF THE LAND AND TO THOSE WHO LOVE THEM FOREWORD THE aim of the present study is to ascer-tain as far as possible the standing of thedeaf, or, as they are so often called, the deaf and dumb, in society in America, and toexamine the treatment that has been accorded tothem—to present an account of an element ofthe population of whom little is generally this effort regard is had not only to the inter-ests of the deaf themselves,
The deaf; their position in society and the provision for their education in the United States . Copyright, 1914,By harry best. Published April, 1914. TO THE DEAF OF THE LAND AND TO THOSE WHO LOVE THEM FOREWORD THE aim of the present study is to ascer-tain as far as possible the standing of thedeaf, or, as they are so often called, the deaf and dumb, in society in America, and toexamine the treatment that has been accorded tothem—to present an account of an element ofthe population of whom little is generally this effort regard is had not only to the inter-ests of the deaf themselves, but also, with thegrowing concern in social problems, to the fixingof a status for them in the domain of the socialsciences. In other words, the design may be saidto be to set forth respecting the deaf somethingof what the social economist terms a survey,or, as it may more popularly be described, to tell* the story of the deaf and dumb. The material employed in the preparation ofthe work has been collected from various docu-ments, and from not a little personal correspond-ence: from the rdeaftheirpositio00best
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