Show deaf blind persons are most neglected of all survey finds finda so afflicted in united states now new york five years rea has located persons in the united states arid 57 in canada who are both deaf and blind it la is disclosed in a report to the american braille press here the report summarizes tile findings and conclusions of an exhaustive survey of deat deaf blindness conducted by mrs corrinne Itou Ilo leall i of washington D a and miss Itebe cen much of cincinnati ohio sirs mrs ilou hou leau lean author of the report lins has be been en deaf since childhood but has perfect sight bliss mack has been partially blind ind since childhood but has perfect li hearing carIng As a class the deaf blind in our midst are not only the roost most heavily handicapped and the most lonely of nil human beings but also as a n class tho the most neglected declares mrs Ilo llo we ve even know of deaf blind children who have been placed in asylums for the feeble minded without proper trial the so called intelligence tests testa being quite worthless in evaluating their potentialities how flow often have we learned of deaf blind children or adolescents being refused entrance ranco in schools for the 1 deaf because they are blind or in schools for the blind because they tire lire leaf or because schools have no trained teachers or because they fear that such pupils will prove too dilli dl cult expensive and burdensome we have the names and addresses of dent deaf blind persons living in the united states and canada and much assorted information about them of our cases most are white per cirni a B number of negroes also figure and one ona indian there are men women and children chi laren of all ages many of them are maimed as well as leaf deaf and blind A small handful are war veterans in addition to brail braille lp tho the deaf blind have various other methods of communication such na as the sign language the morse code etc in most of our list listed e d cases the persons parsons have retained or acquired red the tha faculty of speech of the spoken word some rome efforts to register educate and care for the deaf blind tire ore now being mado made in LonI london jon paris bertin berlin and montreal according t to mrs bouleau no who adds we hope that all these things and more will be lone done for our american cases through the well directed efforts of n central committee for the deaf blind 11 snell a joint committee was started last year with mrs mra rouleau as ascha chairman lr by the volta bureau the american federation of associations for thu the hard of nearing hearing the american foundation for the blind |