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Excerpt from: The Gift Of Speech Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child’s one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows. In many ways deafness is a greater disaster than blindness. Blindness robs the day of its light and makes us dependent and physically helpless. Deafness stops up the fountain-head of knowledge and turns life into a desert. For without language intellectual life is impossible.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | The Gift Of Speech | |
| From: | Out Of The Dark | |
| Creator: | Helen Keller (author) | |
| Date: | 1920 | |
| Format: | Article | |
| Publisher: | Doubleday, Page & Company, New York | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Location: | pp.251-254 | |
| Keywords: | Advocacy; Blind; Children; Deaf; Deaf-blind; Education; Educational Institutions; Helen Keller; Ideologies; New York; Oralism; Sensory Disability | |
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| Note: | Address before the German Scientific Society of New York, April 8, 1913. |
