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THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY
 THE DEAF
THEIR POSITION IN SOCIETYAND THE PROVISION FORTHEIR EDUCATION IN THEUNITED STATES
BY
HARRY BEST
NEW YORK
THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1914,
By HARRY BEST.
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Published April, 1914.
Transcriber's Note:
Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.Significant corrections have been listed at the end of the text.
TO

THE DEAF OF THE LAND

AND TO THOSE WHO LOVE THEM
[v]
FOREWORD
The aim of the present study is to ascertainas 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 known.In this effort regard is had not only to the interestsof 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 documents,and from not a little personal correspondence:from the reports and other publicationsof schools for the deaf, of organizations interestedin the deaf, of state charities, education or otherdepartments, of the United States bureaus ofeducation and of the census; from the proceedings[vi]of bodies interested in the education of thedeaf, of organizat                        
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