Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-04-12 | Page 3 | Girl Born Mute to Make Oration at Graduation

I Girl Born Mute j to Make Oration I at Graduation BINGHAMTON I GnA IT N. N Y April Apri 12 1 Me Mis Misi Helen Dodge Doge 18 1 years fars old olti daughter of oC Mr Ir and Mrs H H. C. C Dodge o of Baldwin tr street et Lester Lesler- shire Dr born brn deaf al and dumb will wi deliver de deliver de de- liver an oration r at h her r gradual graduation on from Irom the orton Malone state stat Institution for the deaf and dumb in June She was placed lif hf f the Institution when only 4 t years old an and has been beena a student there ev ever r since sines Her teachers soon that thai sh shwas she ehe was unu unusually uly intelligent nt and sort began experimenting In an effort efort to lo teach h her r to speak Her vocal oat cords were found lound to b be In normal condition and before or she was 7 j ye years rl old oil she had been en taught to make malte sounds which thich were wr Intelligible The fact that thal she he could speak was kept secret seret not even her parents knowing of or tho the success s of or the ex experiments ox- ox until three years ars ago go when on the thc occasion of ot a call at atthe atthe atthe the Institution she Bhe was allowed to talk with wih them Sho She now speaks speak as distinctly and with as much expression as a person per per- son eon wih with wih the normal faculty of or hearing hear hear- lug ing and It Il Is declared that hers Is Ie tho the Ing first case where this has been done lonc tnt In this or an any other Institution lion tion with wih any degree of or success ton Not only c can n she carry on an nn or ordinary ordinary or- or conversation but her eyesight eyesight eye eye- sight tight has haM been dev developed loped to such an extent that thal she he reads the lp lips of or nn any person In her vicinity and antI will wi make oral response to so o readily as al to lo make It Impossible for lor a n person Unacquainted unacquainted un un- acquainted with wih her to discover that sho she Is not able to hear a t sound of or tiny tny kind