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(3) Suitable for ordinary school with easy teaching as
regards eye work.
Groups (2) and (3) above mentioned should be taught
in class rooms with perfect natural illumination. All work
requiring the fixed attention of the eyes should cease when
the daylight fades.
Group (1) includes the essentially blind, who require
education by blind methods.
Groups (2) and (3) represent primarily seeing scholars
whose education requires modification to meet their physical
defect. Many of them, with a good general training and
special attention to the development of thought, and, if
possible initiative, are able to fill positions of usefulness and
responsibility as sighted citizens.
Deaf—i.e., a child too deaf to be taught in a class of
hearing children in an elementary school. [Elementary
Education (Blind and Deaf Children) Act,
1893. Section 15.]
These children may be classified as follows:—
(1) Suitable for Deaf and Dumb Residential Institution
or Day Special School. These are generally "deaf
mutes," requiring training by methods applicable to the
deaf and dumb.
(2) Suitable for classes for the partially deaf ("hard
of hearing"). These are children who possess residues of
hearing power, i.e., "hard of hearing" children. They
require a large measure of instruction by the methods commonly
applied to the deaf and dumb.
(3) Suitable for ordinary schools (front row). These
are children with hearing power not greatly diminished.