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Deaf and dumb alphabet
Alphabet Al"pha*bet, n. [L. alphabetum, fr. Gr. ? + ?, the first two Greek letters; Heb. [=a]leph and beth: cf. F. alphabet.] 1. The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language. 2. The simplest rudiments; elements. The very alphabet of our law. --Macaulay. Deaf and dumb alphabet. See Dactylology.

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- the Deaf. p. 50. Gallaudet, Edward M. (1886). "History of the education of the deaf in the United States". American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb. 31 (2):...
- used in deaf education and have subsequently been adopted as a distinct part of a number of sign languages. There are about forty manual alphabets around...
- Didascalocophus, or, The deaf and dumb mans tutor, in which he presented his own method of deaf education, including an "arthrological" alphabet, where letters...
- Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb. It held its first classes in New York City in 1818, just after the American School for the Deaf, and thus is recognized...
- school for deaf education in Britain. Braidwood Academy for the Deaf and Dumb, now known as Braidwood School, and the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb which was...
- the use of a manual alphabet to teach deaf students to read and speak. It is considered the first modern treatise on phonetics and speech therapy, setting...
- co-founded the first school for the deaf in North America, the Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, on April 15, 1817, in the old...
- deaf children in the bilingual English/French book, A collection of the Most Remarkable Definitions and Answers of M****ieu and Clerc, Deaf and Dumb....
- conversations by means of the deaf and dumb alphabet. Knocknagow, published in 1873, is a novel about the life of the Irish peasantry and is concerned with the...
- manual alphabets or modifying sign languages used by deaf-sighted people. See for example Helen Keller National Center, LightHouse for the Blind and Visually...