Education of Deaf Children under School Age.
NEWS AND COMMENT. The Volta Bureau of Washington, D. C., makes the announcement that anyone interested in a little deaf child can obtain free literature explaining approved methods of training deaf children from infancy to school age by writing to The Volta Bureau for the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge Relating to the Deaf, 1601 Thirty-fifth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. This literature relates only to the training of little deaf children; not to medical treatment nor to the deafness that comes in later life. Age of child and other details are welcomed. Making New York’s Kindergartens Inefficient.
To save money it is proposed that one kindergartner with the assistance of a substitute, shall teach a class of not more than fifty children in the morning, and another class of similar size in the afternoon, one hour to be allowed for a noon intermission. This device is calculated to promote both educational and financial inefficiency. It is a waste of money to spend a small sum to do a piece of work very badly or not at all, when a larger sum would really accomplish the desired result.
It is also proposed that kindergarten teachers shall visit the homes of kindergarten children and conduct mothers’ meetings. This regulation will make for efficiency. The kindergartner is an individual or clinical teacher, and the more this fact is emphasized in school administration, as for example in the requirement in New Orleans that kinder gar tners shall give individual instruction to the backward pupils of the grades, the better it will be for the future of this most important branch of the school system.
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