It will be a great step forward whn the physician takes part in the work for defec- tives who have hitherto been entrusted wholly to teachers in schools.... The prob- lems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important, than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means loss of the most vital stimulus-the sound of the voice-that brings language, sets thought astir and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.'
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