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The Messenger, Madlsonville, Tuesday, July 11, 1872 Page Seven Training Should Start Early The Problem Of Totally Deaf Children Among themselves, deaf chil-i dren communicate mostly with sign language, since it is much easier and faster. To use lip reading, one of the two would have to be able to talk clearly "Most schools for the deaf tablished between teacher and student, Miss Johnson said, the deaf child is taught to say things in sentences "not just 'apple' if he wants one, but 'I want an "They gradually begin to say it that way. They'll say, 'paper' and you reply, 'say a They'll think a minute and then put it in sentence form that they've learned. "Later, we enlarge on these teach total communication, though," Miss Johnson said. "They use sign language with lip reading and speech any hand to feel the vibration of the voice," Miss Johnson said.

"Then you can begin by using, say, an apple an object that they are familiar with using your voice to say 'Apple' and trying to have them say something back. "They won't say apple right away, but if and when you get anything like an effort to imitate by using their voice, you encourage them greatly and they begin to realize you want them to do that," she said. From there, the road to clear speech is a long one, wrought with frustration and often complicated by misunderstanding parents or people with whom the child comes into contract. "That is a problem with the thing you can communicate merely been robbed of a million sounds. "Very often the hearing child is read bedtime stories and the like and he hears thousands of words in his very early years," Mann said.

"The deaf child often isn't communicated with at all." Miss Johnson said there is a theory that a child must hear a word 1,000 times "before that child can use that word meaningfully. You can teach a child to say 'Mama' but to express a thought with that word, he must associate it in his mind with the person it represents. "The deaf child often doesn't get any of that in his early years and if they come to school at age six, just consider what they've lost," she said. After communication is es with anything to get a point across." forms. For some it is slow; for j-ja -t rj t.

ni 1 i "We try to give these children enough speech so they can choose. If they want to remain in the deaf community, they can do so, but they also can communicate with the hearing community," Miss Johnson others faster, but if they use these skills at home, too, they can get some feedback and are encouraged by it," she said. "But there is one thing we don't use the term 'deaf-mute' anymore because we feel a mute person is merely one who has never been taught to speak," she said. DANVILLE, Ky. (AP)-The child is totally deaf.

He also can't speak because he doesn't know that speech exists. He's never heard it. The problem, then, is in teaching to talk. "You should start when the child is very young, making him aware that there is some communication going on," Louise Johnson, a teacher at the Maryland School for the Deaf, said. The mother, the center of any child's world in early years, is the best teacher because it is easiest to keep the child's attention focused on her and strict attention is essential if the child ever is to speak.

"Every child even the deaf child babbles in the beginning, but the deaf child drops off after a while because they are getting no hearing feedback," Miss Johnson said. "Unless a hearing aid can give them some hearing feedback, they can just forget how to make sound," she added. Miss Johnson was here to teach two courses at Centre College for those who want to teach the deaf to speak. Her class included teachers from the Kentucky School for the Deaf. By holding a child's hand against your throat or his own you can make him aware of voice sounds "using the bare said.

There is no schedule or time age group I teach (teens and pre-teens in the 6th grade). table in teaching a deaf child to talk, she added. Some might Some have tried to talk and been laughed at," Kent Mann, study for 20 years and still nev Unless. er learn and others might pick up some basic speech very quickly. a teacher at KSD, said.

"Most times, we can understand the children we teach, but if you were to come to our school, you probably wouldn't One particular stumbling block involves deaf children of IT APPEARS that this tree grew through the roof, but reason assures us that the tree was there first and the house built around it wasn't it? When you. see a house growing through a tree, then you can begin to worry deaf parents. With sign lan Chess Play Set To Begin Today be able to understand some of guage the only communication at home, they might tend to give up learning to speak To Families them because you're not used to listening to the deaf," Miss Johnson said. aloud. "The goal is to have a child POW Message DeVered REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) American challenger Bobby preceded the encounter, origi nally set to start July 2.

go downtown and ask for a But even the deaf child who tries to speak finds himself far behind his hearing companion sometimes thought of as being retarded when he has milkshake so that the person in the store can understand Fischer and Russian defender Boris Spassky finally begin "Dearest Sue," said Capt. them," she added. Spassky, 35, drew the white chessmen and with them the first move. Fisher, 29, of Brooklyn, N.Y., had the black Charles Allen Jackson of Little play this afternoon in the richest and most publicized world chess championship of all time unless some new snag devel pieces. One game will be played each Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, starting at 5 p.m.

1 p.m. EDT. National prestige was at ops. liuittit. S'ZZ Last-minute adjustments were being made on the stage health is good.

Our shelter and clothes are adequate. Don't worry about me. I love you and the boys very much. I hope to get home to see you soon." Capt. William David Beek-man of Toledo, Ohio, said, "I have had enough food to eat.

Please don't worry about me and just take care of yourself. Say hello to Tina and give her my everlasting love. Remember, I love you all and hope to return some day. Take care. All my love, Bill." A CBS spokesman said the interviews were conducted in Hanoi on June 29.

stake for the defending Russian. The Soviet Union subsi NEW YORK (AP) Four recently captured U.S. Air Force captains, previously listed as missing, have delivered filmed messages to their families that they are being treated well by the North Vietnamese and are in good health. Also seen in the film were a fifth captain seriously wounded, who was silent as he was shown in his hospital bed, and a sixth who gave only the minimal information outlined by the rules governing war. The film was broadcast Monday on the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite," which obtained it from the Denpa News Agency in Tokyo.

Ml. 1 A i I ton, "the Vietnamese people are very kind in seeing to my injuries and are treating me very well. The bones in my arm should heal and I am in good health. I hope you will encourage others to speak up against this unjust war." Capt. David Ryan Grant of Chattanooga, said, "During my capture I was wounded in the right foot.

The treatment has been satisfactory. I feel fine except for the foot. I love you and the boys very much." "Dear Linda," said Capt. David Dingee of Homestead, "I have been well treated. My of Reykjavik's sports hall.

The playing table was shortened, the green-and-white marble chessboard constructed for the fourth time, and the overhead lighting changed. But these were small details compared to the tangled negotiations and war of nerves that CjlJXQ dizes chess and has dominated the game for decades. Fischer is the first foreigner to make it to the finals since 1948. For Fischer, it is a question of money and personal prestige, of proving his claim that he is the best in the world. London oddsmakers rated the lanky American the favorite to win the 24-game, two-month competition and capture more than $180,000 of the estimated $300,000 at stake.

The winner gets five-eighths of the $125,000 put up by the Icelandic Chess Federation, or $78,125, plus another $75,000 of the $120,000 provided by London 11 Y5- A mmm wnuvf Two Shows Daily 3:00 7:00 Now Showing Now Showing investment banker James Sla PARAMOUNT PICTURES IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE RETURN rOJF THE GREATEST FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT OF AUTIEIE! ter to persuade Fischer to end THE RUNAWAY is banned in Mexico. France, Spain, Bra i his holdout last week. Organ calculate. i Fischer zil, Australia and 19 pther countries. Now you can see Spassky will divide at least an without a single cut! other $55,000 from the sale of moouction I i' it.

A i i rr tele ision and film rights. Both players stayed in secul sion. Spassky was reported ner vous and upset. i ft Kentucky State Forecast Partly cloudy, warm and humid today. High temperatures in the upper 80s to around 90.

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VJ TECHNICOLOR Vh ii Fischer, who favors sleeping i THE PARTING OF THE RE0 SEA Thi Ilngli Most Sptettculir Sum in the daytime, was last seen at 1 a.m., Monday, when he visited the sports hall. He de Er Fllmri. rv manded that the mahogany tif I III CECIL B. DeMILLE'S THE TEN COMMANDMENTS heston IU mm (0M WN MM M4 UN BRYNNER BAXTER ROBINSON DE CARLO PAGET DEREK hardwicke foch scon andirson playing table be shortened and that the overhead lights be changed. The challenger also agreed with the Russian's complaints that the squares on the chessboard were too large in relation to the size of the pieces.

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