The lip-reading is taught to those French soldiers who lost their hearing during World War I
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The lip-reading is taught to those French soldiers who lost their hearing during World War I
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Lip-Reading Taught to Deafened Soldiers
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caption 1: Back to school, these French sol-
diers, who are totally deaf, are
learning to read again the old fa-
miliar words. As the teacher points
to cach word and carefully pro-
nounces t, they read his lips intently
caption 2: All of these grown-up school-
boys went through the war at
its worst. Some were made
deaf by the ear-splitting noise
of bursting shells and mines;
others are deaf because of in-
juries to the skull. France
has several schools like this
caption 3: Not totally deaf are the men
of this class, and so their in-
structor tries to bring back
their hearing. The teacher is
pronouncing a word close to a
deaf man’s ear, keeping his voice
low and enunciating clearly
caption 4: The teacher at the end
of the table, who has
bared his teeth in seeming
ferociousness, is only pro-
nouncing a slightly ex
aggerated d. Watching
him very carefully, his
pupils will soon learn the
alphabet of lip - reading
caption 5: “Right arm, up!” says
the instructor, and up
goes the student’s right
arm. It is examination
day, and all the students
who are not totally deaf
are given an oral test
caption 6: The eyelid test is one of the first tests given a
patient, to determine the degree of his deafness.
If the organs of hearing are not completely
destroyed the eyelids will flicker when a noise-
producing machine is applied to the ears
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In France alone during the
Great War three thousand
soldiers lost their hearing
completely and other thou-
sands became partially deaf.
The French Government has
established schools in which
these men are being trained
for restoration to active life
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-08
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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31
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Davide Donà
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 95, n. 2, 1919
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