. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. whereprejudice has permitted error to take deep root. Many of the dumb learrt to communicate by their fin-gers, forming an alphabet, by pointing at each finger, byfhutting them feparately, by laying various numbers offingers upon the other hand, firfl: on one fide, then on theother, and by different figns, paffing through the wholefcale of founds—and compofing words by vifible motions,?which are agreed upon by a friend. They alio write, andlearn the meaning of things, by referring to the reprefen-tatives of words inftead of the words themfe
. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. whereprejudice has permitted error to take deep root. Many of the dumb learrt to communicate by their fin-gers, forming an alphabet, by pointing at each finger, byfhutting them feparately, by laying various numbers offingers upon the other hand, firfl: on one fide, then on theother, and by different figns, paffing through the wholefcale of founds—and compofing words by vifible motions,?which are agreed upon by a friend. They alio write, andlearn the meaning of things, by referring to the reprefen-tatives of words inftead of the words themfelves, and themeaning of things would be as eafily taught by this modeas by the ear, provided there were as much repetition inone cafe as in the other. It is neceffary, that the dumb have each a book, in?which fliould be written under proper heads, the namesof familiar objeds, and under them thofe things whichhave a connexion, beginning with genera, and defcend-ing to fpecieSi R r 2 It 3i6 On teaching the deaf and dumb to speak. li V II > H. On teaching the deaf and dumb to speak. 317 As the pupil will be taught to read, to fpeak, to writeand underftand things at once, the teacher fhould forcehim to leave no name unpFonounced, unwritten, or un-read; and the pupil lliouid be, at the fame time, taught toobferve the motions made by the organs of fpeech in hispreceptor, and likewife to examine his own in a glafs, andto draw the objcft, which may be done in a book eitherarranged according to the ufe of the thing, or put projnif-cuoufly with its name written under; and if the word beincorre<£tly fpelled, to write it properly befides, or look inone of the correifted didionaries. All thefe methods willjmprefs his mind fo ftrongly, that he will feldom have oc-cafion to refer to his book; and by this method he willalfo attain to a great proficiency in drawing. The adions and paffions Ihould be a£ted to the pupil,and no nlovement made without fhewing its meaning,and noting it dow
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