Explore decades of insight into deaf education and speech training.
This volume collects proceedings, editorials, and reviews from the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf. It offers a window into early methods, conventions, and institutional reports that shaped teaching practices and policy for deaf students.
The book highlights the association’s annual activities, conference notes, and a broad range of reviews of schools, programs, and scholarly work. You’ll find detailed notices about meetings, lectures, and demonstrations that showcased speech teaching, auricular approaches, and the Akoulalion devices of the era, along with obituaries and biographical sketches of influential figures.
- Records from conventions and committee work that guided the field’s direction.
- Summaries of programs, papers, and discussions across multiple sections (oral, normal, industrial, kindergarten).
- Reviews of schools, curricula, and instructional methods for deaf education.
- Biographical notes, institutional reports, and professional correspondence from the period.
Ideal for readers of historical education journals, researchers studying deaf history, or anyone curious about early 20th‑century approaches to teaching speech to the deaf. It provides context for how professionals shared knowledge and advanced practice during this era.