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SCHOOLS FOR ABNORMALS. 307
New-comers to a School for Deaf and Dumb.
lit four districts, the school consists of a single building; in one district, each of
the three divisions of the school has its separate building, and, finally, two districts
have located their different divisions in different towns. In five districts, the whole
school has the features of a boarding-school, i. e. the pupils enjoy both board
and lodging in the school itself; in one district, the school is partly a day-, and
partly a boarding-school; and in one, it is exclusively a day-school.
The instruction is joint for boys and girls (a feature peculiar to the
Scandinavian, German, and English American Deaf and Dumb school) and it is
carried on during 40 weeks in the year, and comprises the usual Common school
subjects. The boys are in addition taught sloyd, tailoring, and shoemaking;
the girls, sewing, weaving, and household management, and, in one school, even
cookery. Some schools teach both boys and girls gardening.
Pupils that have left the school may, as far as possible, revisit the school
for a week or so every year; and at one school, attempts have been made to
start a continuation course for such visitors, which has succeeded well, and been
gratefully attended by the deaf-mutes.
Only two of the former private schools now exist, one of which takes deaf and
dumb idiots that are capable of some instruction. The total number of pupils in
the public and private schools amounted in 1902 to 803, 610 of whom were taught
according to the articulation-method, 142 according to the writing-, and 49 according
to the signing-method. The number of classes is 112 and of teachers 111, 51 of
whom are men, and 60 women. There is a Seminary for training such teachers
at the Manilla School in Stockholm (Borg’s old Institute, but now a district school).
There are, besides, for deaf-mutes who are over age, two establishments with
a total of about 60 pupils. These establishments gradually become unnecessary,
in proportion as compulsory instruction is enforced.
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