id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005197789 Reilly, William F. The world of silence : the problem of the deaf and the hard of hearing 1940 .txt text/plain 13188 486 65 The fact that powers of speech do exist in deaf children is but one reason why the old terms “deaf-and-dumb,” “deaf-mute” and “mute” are no longer used by those who really understand. Very often the parents of deaf children consider their plight a hopeless one and feel that nothing can be done to train and educate them, with the result that in a false sense of shame they keep their children hidden. cache/_005197789.txt txt/_005197789.txt