
Alone in a Silent World
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For centuries the deaf community endured a mixture of derision, ignorance and poverty; they suffered what Dr Johnson described as ‘one of the most desperate of human calamities’.
A few schools for deaf children had been founded from the 1780s but it was only in the early decades of the 19th century that philanthropists, evangelists and the deaf themselves began to create institutions to offer spir...
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For centuries the deaf community endured a mixture of derision, ignorance and poverty; they suffered what Dr Johnson described as ‘one of the most desperate of human calamities’.
A few schools for deaf children had been founded from the 1780s but it was only in the early decades of the 19th century that philanthropists, evangelists and the deaf themselves began to create institutions to offer spir...
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