Teaching Language to a Boy Born Deaf
The Popham Notebook and Associated Texts
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 November 2017
- ISBN 9780199677085
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages344 pages
- Size 240x162x34 mm
- Weight 676 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
An edition of the recently discovered notebook used in the seventeenth-century by John Wallis to teach language to the 'deaf mute' Alexander Popham, who could not inherit unless he could speak - one of the most famous cases in the history of deaf education. David Cram and Jaap Maat place the work in its personal, social, and scientific contexts.
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This book presents an edition of a previously unpublished notebook used by the seventeenth-century polymath John Wallis to teach language to the 'deaf mute' Alexander Popham. Under the terms of the law Popham would not have been able to inherit his family title and property if he had remained unable to speak. This is one of the most famous cases in the history of deaf education. The notebook, which has recently come to light in the Popham family mansion, provides fascinating insights into the details of the instruction. It is a rare example of a manual tailor-made for the instruction of a known individual and its author is one of the foremost scientists of the period. If it had not been lost the work would have been a key document in the dispute between John Wallis and William Holder, both distinguished fellows of the Royal Society, on whose method had been successful in teaching Popham to speak. The Popham Notebook provides essential evidence towards the resolution of a debate that has been widely discussed ever since.
David Cram and Jaap Maat place the work in its personal, social, and scientific contexts. They include a range of additional contemporary texts and provide a clear text with helpful annotations. The edition provides the means for a thorough reassessment of the work's contemporary value. Their introduction also includes a discussion of the theoretical issues underpinning the teaching of language to the deaf.
The authors, David Cram and Jaap Maat, have done an excellent and thorough job in providing this text, not only for its historical value, but also for the theoretical issues touched on in teaching language to the deaf.
Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION
Deafness in philosophical, medical, legal and religious perspectives
Teaching language to the deaf before the 1650s
Literature on teaching language to the deaf in seventeenth-century Britain
The education of Alexander Popham
Aftermath and retrospect
PART I: THE POPHAM NOTEBOOK
Transcription of text, with textual footnotes
PART II: THE EDUCATION OF ALEXANDER POPHAM
John Wallis (1661) First letter to Boyle on teaching language to the deaf
William Holder (1669) An Appendix Concerning Persons Deaf and Dumb
John Wallis (1670 [1662]) Second letter to Boyle on teaching language to the deaf
William Holder (1678) A Supplement to the Philosophical Transactions of July 1670
John Wallis (1678) A Defence of the Royal Society; In answer to the cavils of Dr. William Holder
PART III: AFTERMATH AND LEGACY
John Wallis to Thomas Beverley (1698) On teaching language to the deaf
John Wallis and Johann Conrad Amman (1700) An exchange of letters on the method of teaching the deaf
Henry Baker (1723) A Short Essay on Speech
Bibliography
Index
