Report Of The School Board For London To The Education Department

Author : London. School Board
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230146713
Total Pages : 184 pages
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Download or read book Final Report of the School Board for London, 1870-1904; with the Valedictory Address of the Right Honourable the Lord Ray ... Chairman of the Board written by London. School Board and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...age fixed by the Act is 7, and the importance to the deaf child, who is to be taught on the oral system, of the four or five years' teaching before the age of 7 is very great. The Board have admitted children to schools for the deaf at 3 years of age with good results, and we shall probably find that the system now being tried in Philadelphia, of teaching the deaf child speech at the same age as the hearing child is the only fair condition under which the oral system may be judged. The third disadvantage has been' dealt with by providing separate accommodation for the defectives, resulting in the segregation of about 10 per cent, of the deaf children whose instruction is carried on by means of writing, finger-spelling, and speech, not less to their own benefit than to the benefit of those from whom they have been separated. On January 1st, 1894, it became legal for School Authorities to provide and maintain Residential as well as Day schools tor the Blind and Deaf, and to pay for guides and travelling. Rules were issued by the Education Department under the Act to allow the boarding of blind and deaf children near certified Day schools under Boarding-out Committees. The only difference between the blind and deaf made in the Act is the regulation referred to above by which the deaf child cannot be compelled to attend school till the age of 7. Soon after the Act came into operation, the Board decided it was desirable that a Residential school should be provided, and they submitted plans to the Education Department for the provision of such a school at Anerley; but in consequence of conditions required by the Department the proposal was, for the time, dropped. In March, 1898, it was decided to adapt premises at Homerton for a Residential...