Show DEAF AND SHOW PROGRESS Remarkable Exhibition Before State Teachers PROFESSOR DRIGGS PAPER i RELATION Op OF STATE TO DEFECTIVE I TIVE CHILDREN EXPLAINED The blind saw the deaf deat heard and the dumb spoke before the Utah state Teachers in Barratt halll hail esterday forenoon Children from the state School for the Deaf Dumb and Blind were present a an exhibit of what the state is doing to help the thel l afflicted ones within Us Its borders over overcome overcome come their deficiencies and bring it about that in the present time the Bible prediction is fulfilled and the lame man shall leap as an hart and the tongue or of the dumb man shall SIng The children did not sing but the dear deaf ones carried on conversations with per ons not thus afflicted and together wIth the blind in other ways showed how the they had surmounted the obstacles nature had thrust upon them themAs themAs As the children fearlessly stood In front ol of the crowd and talked and read more than one eye In the audi audience audience ence was by no means all the eyes had feminine o owners ners nersA A paper by Professor F M Driggs superintendent of the Institution led up lip to the exhibition by the pupils Address by Professor Driggs Professor Driggs spoke on The State itt Its Relation to the Defective child ChUd He said ThIs Is I think the first time that the Utah State School for tor the Dear Deaf and the Blind has been bean rightly recognized as an educational institution by the State T acher Such schools are too often thought to be asylums or ex char charitable Hable institutions Permit me Mr Pros Pres President ident for you are I believe responsible recognition to thank you ou for Cor the opportunity to say a few words for the hUd who struggles in unequal and often discouraging cIrcumstances At the outset let us u understand what we mean by the detective child The de child Is one that does not prop properly erly tit fit In the public schools because ot of detective defective h hearing earl IU sight or mind Ye We lass daas such children as bein deaf bUnd blind and feeble minded The first three classes the deaf deat the blind and the are capable ot of the highest mental moral and physical development while the feebleminded whose progress is limited i te may under er proper Instruction ahei til rise s to some m height in the scale or In There are many grades es ot of deafness as th there re are many shades or of a particular color from the tho child chUd who Is hard of to the one who is as deaf as a anes apost post There are also many grades of blindness nes from the child with rh poor sight to the one who ho is totally blind To be is to be deprived of oC both bear bearing bearIng ing and as In the case of the mar marY Y loU girl Helen Keller with whom I had the pl pleasure amro of oC conversing a short time since There are about thirty such children known to be in the United States TIle The feebleminded child Is one who hears but often does not speak or speaks imperfectly or incoherently acts shY or sill silly swears when or In BOrne other way shows a defective mind Says All Should Be Educated The question is The State in Its Rela Bela to These Defective Children Ye We all know that no nation Is as great eat as the sum ot of the achievements of all na nations nations that the best nation Is the one w corner atones are based upon a I thorough education ot of Its citizens and further that no sy system tem ot of education is 13 isas a as rood 00 1 or e a complete as the one that provides an open way for the education I of oC an all Us Its citizens no matter how poor their clr circumstances or how defective their I 1 believe all children should be educated the bright boy and the dull the normal child and the detective defective child hild The state has no right to be par partial partial In Its distribution of oC knowledge and it annot afford aCford to b be The state should not educate your boy because he can hear see e e It provides similarly for form formy m my bo boy who cannot hear or see or sp speak ak It would be an unjust discrimination But you nut may say Mr r Driggs why must t the state stat furnish these detective defective hildren with a home and board and shelter r It does not provide such things the ordinary child The re reeson son Is plain The state slate provides a free education for tor all its children For Forthe the ordinary child It places s the public school at the very home door It often t consolidates school b districts in order d to give heo greater teeter advantages and when chil children Iren dren live Uve at Ire fre I transports them to and from school Rt at expense because It costs cost costle le less s than it ft would to bring the school to t the ne child chUd On the tho same prin principle the state finds it more convenIent and more economical as well ail as productive of su sup superior p results to establish and maintain a central for tor its defective children paying paving for their board boar l and shelter dur lag the term The state provides a home as a necessity Incidental to education not noth as h an act or of Parents submit to the of separation from their us un unfortunate fortunate children as a painful sacrifice which they make for the good ot of the child and the benefit ot of the tate state Dea Deaf and Blind Usually Bright I It ought here herp to be understood that the deaf and the blind are general generally bright intelligent and happy boys and girls the same Sf as other children unless the they have b been n spoiled 1 bause because or of their af affliction also that the state stale school at Ogden is thoroughly I and wholly a school an eCu edu Te The methods metho s em In the dea deaf and amI the blind arc thoroughly pedagogical and pr pro progressive We e believe that to do is equally I as Import Important a as to know that we should have bave positive not n negatIve athe education that deprivation of pleasure or privilege i Is effective punishment that many agencies besides bk books ma may develop the hUd child that means development We Y blev believe ali alo wih with Elbelt Elbert Hubbard that WP we cannot make a plant lant blossom hut but w wn we wean an n place It In the sunshine and sUP supply ly i it wib with pe tod food an and moisture th that we must mustI work I to itt t an education ton and then work to make e It P profitable c Method Methods Tat That Ae Are Used Our methods do 40 not differ gret greatly from those you empl employ but the mens means of corn com and instruction and the ways nf cit obtaining are ot of course much more difficult We Ve communicate ih the deaf deat ehl child In the following ways by speech reding reading by hJ by fn fingOr r spelling by pantomime or cigna i n The child receives his knowledge through al alt althis his except harln hearing We Va corn com I lh Ith the blind child by n owl and by writing the writing ben being a yet simple system of six aix raised called the Braille Te The blind child t his through h al all hit his senses except lie reads with his fInger tp tips To b better ter show how we be begin gin And what we accomplish I have i brought with m me a live exhibit exhibit to pres presently I illustrate our work The tate state to today alm aims to Elve give to er every deaf child ebUd a common schol school education I and to prepare thoS those who deir desir higher education for entrance to the National atonal ollege for tor the Deaf at at Washington Ii D Iii i te the Oy oaly college for tor the deaf deat In tho the 1 world orld I It al also provides cre courses hi n manual and physical traIning an and domestic science cence and turns out young men and women omen as honorable citizens capable or of earning aJ an honet honest livelihood in place or of letting them gow grow up in a buren burden to the community and little bet better ter tha than the flocks and J herds of thE the feld field Our manual training might more prop erl bl be called trade instruction as we wet t dl such Ue a as carpentry shoe ma sing printing barber barberIng barbering Ing ing and horticulture Among ou on aU ates 1 Ind nd WE we have hae a teacher two tors a surveyor a photographer a blacksmith farmers shoemaker print en era dr dressmakers maker housewives and nd l labor laborera bor era all 1 bearing evidence of r th the states wise ton In their behalf Jo behal graduate ot of our h is tda today em occupation plo ed at some ome u ful and remunerative For the blind the state stat P a high school education manual training do science music piano tuning and a as In the ca ease of the is on en t I i to the level or ortho tho those wh and No But Oters Others Wore There arc sO ao Ca far as I 1 know nt nc dea deaI deaf I j j jJ d J Ii I blind In Utah for lor which ive l r feel el hut but i if ther there were the states dut duty would be to provIde special d duCa ad advantages tor br them Thee There ere re however In Utah b boys m ad and girls more unfortunate than elbr either ot of ia tile three classes just mentioned for which the tho state makes make no prot Ion namely the feebleminded Ever Every year I 1 receive a al plc tion for tor the admission to our ot of feebleminded children These applicants and they are not few range 1 In feeblemindedness from slightly below the noral normal child to the idiotic Imbecile nd Insane insane Many ay of them ae are capable ot of much growt growth ad and development under proper Instruction The stae state should establish a a school and hoe home for them where they ma may have the best beat environ environment ment ment kindergarten methods manual ad and physical training as wel well as S work UDon the ta farm and in the garden garen and where they ma may be kept clean given givena a ad and plain diet careful bathing and be taught to o dres dresa ad and undress themselves wash their faes faces and hands sweep and make beds control I their temper tempers and mae have some little consideration tion for tor other others ton In conclusion I 1 desire to say that it should be the dut duty ot of every cItizen and especially of ever every teacher to see to I It that the defective youth Is w wel l care cared for taught to obe obey to the tho right rights and feelings of hIs friends to do o some something something thing for others and if he is too deaf deaf or too blind to be educated In the public schools help to have hav hIm placed place In the state school for the deaf deat and the he blind at Ogden where able men and w cn art an doing their to unstop the ear ears of the dea deaf open the eyes ces or of the blind give speech lis lius and intel ence to darkened minds Then the detective defective child and with Helen Keller ma may rejoice ad say Keler Science Nature and nd Ar Art sa hay to me thou art deaf and and blind but enter thou lUo into the kingdom or of heven heaven God bles bless the na naton nation ton tion children that provides an education for al all her Exercises by te the Pupi Pupils Following the paper Profesor Professor Introduced thre three members of the be beginner beginners ginner class under Miss France Frances N NEddy NEddy cass Eddy who gave class exercises in in speaking and in reading ater after the c had been heen In the Institution for a period cover covering coverIng ing less Jess than three months A second year class clans of oC three having had the work for a yea year was as also shown under Miss Bennett and this class showed as geat great proficiency In spelling as as any cassot class ot children ps pos sensed or of aU all the faculties besides re remarkable remarkable skill In Al All ot of the children were absolutely free from or shyness A Abo Aboy bo boy of 1 14 years was introduced whose hearn hearing was wa so defective that he was taken from the public schools some thre three years ago ad and placed in the state school His development ha has been re remarkable remarkable since that time timeA A A young oung girl in the eighth grade from irom the blind class one ot of the two who wi will complete the gades grades this yar read reada a greeting In the Brie Braille S S Stem tern tem b by the other other cass class Lter Later Miss Delong one or of the tech teach er era of tile the Institution who is totally dea deaf ad and obtained nI till her early eu edu education caton cation in the state schol school was intro introduced Introduced and although her speech has hasben ben been acquired entirely by study of the vocal organs ad and the lips Bps she made a brier brief talk to the teacher teachers corn com commending mending the Institution and Is its work to ther their further study Ater After the High school work in the state in Institution Miss Iss Debug Delong entered Gal Gallaudet Gallaudet laudet college whence she graduated with the degree of B A Visit te the Commercial Club The entre entire par party from th the school was later taken to the Commercial club where as guests of Mss Miss Maud laud May Babcock the they were entertained at luncheon The little people showed that the training given them had not been all in the schoolroom as their manner manners ad and their enjoyment or of everything wih with which tey they cae came in contact bespoke a broader education than hat alone The club members took delight in showing the little pe pee pie around the club and enjoyed their admiration Here when the luncheon wa was ede ended the little folk were taken through the I spacious rooms and given tile addi additional lonal experiences of seeing and meet meeting Irig ing new people The smal small cas class which had distinguished itself at the morn morning morning ing exercises was led before the large portrait of President Roosevelt and here in concert the tho tn tiny urchins pro pronounced flounced the to them name They were led before the oter other pie pic pictures tures which hang bang on the wals walls and ma many were their comments audible and inaudible but none the Jes less ox ex I on the beautes beauties or art with which they were surrounded Nothing of the unusual scene seemed to dicon diacon cert the youngsters The entire mtr party part returned last evening to Ogden where the work goes on regardless or of till the close ot of the school year In the cose sumer summer time Sm Sonic Examples of Improvement I The following is a sort of cad card hi hito his history to tory furnished hed b by Professor Drigg or of three children from the time the they were received at the school ti till the pre pros ent da day for obvious reasons their names names not being given umber One Is almost H ears old He Hc attended pub lc lie school chool thre three years erR but could not sue suc there on account of lak lack ot of hearing Came to school for the deaf tree three and o years es ago when almost n 11 years earS old Condition on entrance Ha Bad yet very littie hearIng hearing talk Had very 1 imperfect imperfect speech mere bab baby Had no Il lip reading Had no connected language spoken or written Could not red rend In a first reader Writing was very ven poe 0 Had no habit habits ot of study W Ws not obedient Was s not nol Inclined to study study or work not because he was natural naturally b bad d but because he had not not b been n dev developed loped in the right way owing to his affliction Condition at present time Is obedient and industrious and sel self governing Speech Is vr very good Lip reading very good so 80 that he hc thins thInks he has haR beter better hearing than he had bad two yer years a ago o Ye We do not sa say that he has increased power of hennS hearing but his at t has been cultivated ad and this with ih his poWer Dover or of lD lip reading enables him to take instruction as a hearing boy Is good in al all his to meet most of his difficulties himself lisa Hag become a great reat reader or of good boks books I Is now working lIt in the printing office Nuber Number Two I I 17 years old Ha Has been In public for tor six yea years considered we un Understand dul dull st feebleminded |