CHAPTER XIII.

SCHOOLS FOR THE BLIND AND THE DEAF.

For the school year 1911-12 sixty State schools for the blind were reported to this bureau. Their statistics are summarized in Tables 1 to 5, and detailed information concerning them will be found in Table 6.

The remaining tables of the chapter relate to schools for the deaf. There were 141 of these reporting, 64 State schools, 58 public day schools, and 19 private schools.

The Austine Institution for the Deaf and the Blind, located at Brattleboro, Vt., and supported by the State, began its work in 1912 with 4 teachers and 18 pupils.

The legislature of Arizona in 1911 provided for a school for the deaf in the State University at Tucson. This school began in 1912 with 2 teachers and 25 pupils.

Public day schools for the deaf were opened in September, 1912, at Jackson and L'Anse, Mich., Marshfield and Mineral Point, Wis. A private school for the deaf, known as Miss Arbaugh's School, was opened in Macon, Ga., in 1912.

The following-named schools have been reported to this bureau, but complete statistical returns have not been obtained from any of them:

School in Lip Reading for the Deaf, Deland, Fla.

Müller-Walle Training School, Boston, Mass.

New York School for Hard of Hearing, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.

Müller-Walle School of Lip Reading for Adult Deaf, Walnut and 17th Streets, Philadelphia, Pa.

Schools for stammerers are not properly considered with schools for the deaf, but there are objections to placing them in the list of schools for nervous and backward children. The following schools have been reported to this bureau, but full information concerning them is not at hand:

The Pacific School for Stammerers, 1462 Grace Street, Oakland, Cal.

The Bogue Institute for Stammerers, Indianapolis, Ind.

Lewis School for Stammerers, 35 Adelaide Street, Detroit, Mich. Reed School for Nervous and Backward Children, 384 Hubbard Avenue, Detroit, Mich.