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  title info:
    title: Teaching language to a boy born deaf
    sub title: the Popham notebook and associated texts
  name:
    name part: Wallis, John
    name part: 1616-1703
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Cram, David.
  name:
    name part: Maat, Jaap.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  abstract: This book presents an edition of a previously unpublished notebook used by the seventeenth-century polymath John Wallis to teach language to the "deaf mute" Alexander Popham.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. This 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. 0David 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.
  note: John Wallis ; edited and introduced by David Cram and Jaap Maat.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Popham, Alexander
      name part: 1648-1707
  subject:
    topic: Deaf
    topic: Education
    genre: Early works to 1800
  subject:
    topic: Deaf children
    topic: Language
    genre: Early works to 1800
  subject:
    topic: Deaf
    topic: Means of communication
    genre: Early works to 1800
  classification: HV2469.E5 W35 2017
  classification: 940.2
  classification: 371.91/2
  identifier: 9780199677085
  identifier: 0199677085
  record info:
    record content source: ERASA
    record creation date: 161216
    record change date: 20180307110719.0
    record identifier: in00003961379
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng