"Deaf-mute" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... more than you expect the baby to understand to start with. But each month he will gain more, and by the time he is sixteen or seventeen he will have very nearly overtaken his hearing brother. But if you always address him with a yawning mouth and flopping tongue and lips, and use deaf-mute English to him, he will progress in his understanding and use of that, but it is not what you wish him to acquire. Be patient, be gentle, be untiring and unremitting in your efforts, but BE NATURAL. Keep your eyes on his eyes and speak ...
— What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know • John Dutton Wright |
