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VII. On the Education of James Mitchell, the young Man born Blind and Deaf
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 January 2013
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The practicability of instructing in any kind of language a person blind and deaf from infancy seems not to have occurred to the friends of James Mitchell till suggested by Dr Gordon, whose ideas on the subject are contained in Professor Stewart's account published in the Transactions of this Society. An attempt has been since made to put in practice a plan for the same purpose, proposed by Mr Parker, an English gentleman who resided for a short time in Scotland. This consisted in accustoming him to handle the letters of the alphabet, formed of pieces of wood or paste board, when placed together so as to compose different words significant of tangible objects, and making him handle the objects in order to learn their meaning.
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- Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , 1818 , pp. 137 - 156
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- Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1818
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page 137 note * See Vol. vii. p. 70.
page 137 note † See the preceding Paper in this Volume.
page 149 note * See p. 130. of this Volume.
page 150 note * See Vol, vii. p. 27.
page 152 note * Page 145.
page 154 note * Page 145.
page 154 note † This plan is evidently adapted to the use of the blind in general; and experiments may be made with great facility on that class of persons, whose claims on the attentions of society are fully recognised, though they are highly privileged when compared with the subject of these observations. Such experiments, it is to be hoped, will be speedily attempted, if they have not hitherto been made.