"Deaf-mute" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mental growth is incredibly slower than that of the hearing child. All that can be learned by means of the other senses is, however, learned rapidly, these being quickened and stimulated by the absence of one. Hence, the deaf-mute child of eight or ten years of age often appears as bright and intelligent as his more favored playmate. The latter, however, has a store of knowledge and a fund of thought wholly unknown to the ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, April, 1876. • Various |
