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The McCowen Oral School For Young Deaf Children
The results of these continued experiments were so satisfactory that in September, 1882, the beginning class in the Institution, numbering about twenty, was, at her request, assigned to her for oral and aural training -- the first instance, so far as known, where a class of deaf pupils were taught exclusively by the auricular method or the persistent use of latent hearing...
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Title: The McCowen Oral School For Young Deaf Children
Creator: Mary McCowen (author)
Date: 1893
Format: Book
Source: Available at selected libraries
Keywords: Advocacy; Chicago, IL; Children; Communication; Deaf; Education; Educational Institutions; Ideologies; Illinois; Institutions; McCowen Oral School For Young Deaf Children; Oralism; Schools; Sensory Disability; Social Welfare & Communities
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy
Note: Republished in Histories of American Schools for the Deaf, 1817-1893, edited by Edward Allen Fay (Washington, D.C.: The Volta Bureau, 1893), vol.1.


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- Class In Sewing (still)
- Class In Sloyd (still)
- Dining Room Of The McCowen Oral School For Young Deaf Children (still)
- First Intermediate Class (still)
- First Kindergarten Class (still)
- Lesson In Articulation (still)
- McCowen Oral School Parlor (still)
- Room Furnished By Mrs. Wm. Moore (still)
- Saturday Morning In Gynasium (still)
- The McCowen Oral School For Young Deaf Children (doc)