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• Cours élémentaire d'éducation des sourds et muets (chez les freres Debure, Libraires, 1778), by Abbé Deschamps, Beauvais de Préau, Louis Pierre Couret de Villeneuve, Debure, and Johann Conrad Amman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Institution des sourds et muets par la voie des signes méthodiques... premiere partie[-second partie] (Chez Nyon..., 1776), by Benoît Morin and Jean-Luc Nyon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exercice de sourds et muets qui se fera le ... 4 aôut 1772, chez Monsieur l'Abbe de l'Épée ... (de l'Imprimerie de Grangé ..., 1773), by Charles-Michel de L'Epée and Grangé (page images at HathiTrust)
• The deaf and dumb man's discourse. Or A treatise concerning those that are born deaf and dumb containing a discovery of their knowledge or understanding; as also the method they use, to manifest the sentiments of their mind. Together with an additional tract of the reason and speech of inanimate creatures. By Geo. Sibscota. (London : printed by H. Bruges, for William Crook at the green Dragon without Temple-Bar, 1670), by George Sibscota and Anton Deusing (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Chirologia: or, The Naturall Language of the Hand Composed of the Speaking Motions, and Discoursing Gestures Thereofl Whereunto Is Added Chironomia, or, the Art of Manuall Rhetoricke, Consisting of the Naturall Expressions, Digested by Art In the Hand, as the Chiefest Instrument of Eloquence, By Historicall Manifesto's Exemplified Out of the Authentique Registers of Common Life and Civill Conversation; With Types, or Chyrograms, a Long-wish'd for Illustration of This Argument (London: Printed by T. Harper, 1644), by J. B.
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• The Invited Alphabet: or, Address of A To B Containing His Friendly Proposal for the Amusement and Instruction of Good Children (London: B. Tabart and Co., 1809), by R. R., illust. by Charles Knight (page images at Princeton)
• Lettre sur les sourds et muets : á l'usage de ceux qui entendent [et] qui parlent, avec des additions .. (s.n.], 1751), by Marqués de Ovando (page images at HathiTrust)
• Institutions des sourds et muets, ou Recueil des exercices foutenus par les sourds [et] muets pendant les années 1771, 1772, 1773 [et] 1774 : avec las lettres qui on accompagné les programmes de chacun de ces exercices. (de l'imprimerie de Butard ..., 1774), by J.H. Butard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scoperta della chironomia (Per li Fratelli Gozzi, 1797), by Vincenzo Requeno and Fratelli Gozzi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thesaurus artificiosae memoriae (Apud Antonium Paduanium, bibliopolam Florentinum, 1579), by Cosimo Rosselli and Damiano Rosselli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naturall language of the hand (Printed by Tho. Harper, and are to be sold by R[ichard] Whitaker, at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, 1644), by fl. 1648-1654 J. B. (John Bulwer) and William Marshall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sermo mirabilis: or The silent language. Whereby one may learn prefectly [sic] in the space of six hours, how to impart his mind to any friend in any language, English, French, Dutch, &c. tho never so deep and dangerous a secret, without the least noise, word or voice; and without the knowledge of any in company. Being a wonderful art kept secret for several ages, in Padua, and now only published to the wise and prudent, who will not expose it, as a prostitute, to every foolish, and ignorant fellow. / By Monsieur La Fin, once secretary to his Eminence the Cardinal of Richlieu. (London : Printed for T. Salusbury at the Kings Arms, near St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet, 1693), by Charles de La Fin (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Philocophus, or, The deafe and dumbe mans friend exhibiting the philosophicall verity of that subtile art, which may inable one with an observant eie, to heare what any man speaks by the moving of his lips : upon the same ground ... that a man borne deafe and dumbe, may be taught to heare the sound of words with his eie, & thence learne to speake with his tongue / by I.B., sirnamed the Chirosopher. (London : Printed for Humphrey Moseley ..., 1648), by fl. 1648-1654 J. B. (John Bulwer) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Didascalocophus, or, The deaf and dumb mans tutor to which is added a discourse of the nature and number of double consonants, both which tracts being the first (for what the author knows) that have been published upon either of the subjects / by Geo. Dalgarno. (Oxford : [s.n.], 1680), by George Dalgarno (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Digiti-lingua, or, The most compendious, copious, facil, and secret way of silent converse ever yet discovered shewing, how any two persons may be capable, in half an hours time, to discourse together by their fingers only, and as well in the dark as the light / by a person who has conversed no otherwise in above nine years. (London : Printed for P. Buck ..., 1698), by Person who has conversed no otherwise in above nine years (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Philocophus, or, The deafe and dumbe mans friend exhibiting the philosophicall verity of that subtile art, which may inable one with an observant eie, to heare what any man speaks by the moving of his lips : upon the same ground ... that a man borne deafe and dumbe, may be taught to heare the sound of words with his eie, & thence learne to speake with his tongue / by I.B., sirnamed the Chirosopher. (London : Printed for Humphrey Moseley ..., 1648), by fl. 1648-1654 J. B. (John Bulwer) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Problems of the deaf (The Laryngoscope Press, 1933), by Max Aaron Goldstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Learning to use hearing aids; a study of factors influencing the decision of children to wear hearing aids. Report of the Subcommittee of the Committee on Problems of Deafness of the National Research Council (Teachers College, Columbia University, 1946), by National Research Council (U.S.). Subcommittee on the Value of Individual Hearing Aids for Hard of Hearing Children in School, Rose Estrin Kushner, and Arthur I. Gates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orientation of social workers to the problems of deaf persons ; proceedings (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Vocational Rehabilitation Administration, 1964), by Berkeley) Workshop for the Orientation of Social Workers to the Problems of Deaf Persons (1963 : University of California, Beryl Godfrey, Berkeley. School of Social Welfare University of California, and Education United States. Department of Health (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychology of the deaf. (The American Psychological Association, 1940), by Clarke School for the Deaf. Clarence W. Barron Research Department. Psychological Division, Fritz Heider, and Grace M. Heider (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Gesetze der Physiologie und Psychologie über Entstehung der Bewegungen und der Artikulations-Unterricht der Taubstummen (W. Engelmann, 1879), by Wilhelm Gude (page images at HathiTrust)
• The deaf person's quick guide to Washington (The Library, 1976), by District of Columbia. Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• La sensibilità dei sordomuti. (Tip. dell'Unione cooperativa editrice, 1895), by Salvatore Ottolenghi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die entstehung und ursache der taubstummheit (Alt, 1900), by Fritz Danziger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tratado legal sobre los mudos ([s.n.], 1919), by Licenciado Lasso (page images at HathiTrust)
• Helen Keller (Putnam, 1958), by John William Tibble and Helen Keller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The blind and deaf-mutes in the United States ... (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1900), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
• Verwantschap en erfelijkheid bij doofstomheid en retinitis pigmentosa ... (F. van Rossen, 1919), by Pieter Adrianus de Wilde (page images at HathiTrust)
• The children of silence; or, The story of the deaf. (Porter & Coates, 1887), by Joseph Augustus Seiss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paddle your own canoe; or, An outline sketch of P.A. Emery (M.S. Emery, 1876), by W. F. Woodworth and O. S. Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peeps into the deaf world (s.n.], 1917), by William Robert Roe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discussions on philosophy and literature, education and university reform (Harper, 1861), by William Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lost senses. Deafness and blindness. (R. Carter & brothers, 1852), by John Kitto (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quid veteres literaeque sanctae de surdis mutisque existimaverint disseritur : dissertatio quam scripsit et pro summis in philosophia honoribus obtinendis amplissimo philosophorum ordini in universitate litterarum ienensi (Typis Ratii, 1868), by Wilhelm Kuhlgatz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Driving and employability. (U. S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Vocational Rehabilitation Administration, 1964), by National Symposium on the Deaf (1962 : University of Denver), Sherman G. Finesilver, and Education United States. Dept. of Health (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instruction précise et claire pour reconnaitre dès les premières années de la vie qu'un enfant est sourd-muet, et pour prévenir autant que possible le surdi-mutisme, ainsi que pour élever convenablement ces enfants dans la maison paternelle (A. Franck, 1847), by Eduard Schmalz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modicum of hearing of deaf mutes; how to use it and how to improve it. ([s.n.], 1896), by S. T. Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• 3 Taubstummen-Labyrinthe. Ein Beitrag zu der Lehre von den Entwicklungsstörungen des häutigen Labyrinthes ... (J.F. Bergmann, 1903), by Ernst Oppikofer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notions sur le sens de l'ouïe en général, et en particulier sur le développement de ce sens, opéré chez Roldolphe Grivel et chez plusieurs autres enfans sourds-muets de naissance .. (Chez Mme. Ve. Picot, née Fontenay, seul imprimeur du roi, 1819), by Antoine Fabre d'Olivet and Rodolphe Grivel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Upon the formation of a deaf variety of the human race (U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1884), by Alexander Graham Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The deaf; their position in society and the provision for their education in the United States (T.Y. Crowell Co., 1914), by Harry Best (page images at HathiTrust)
• Premier rapport annuel sur l'Institution catholique des sourds-muets pour la province de Québec [incorporée en 1874] dirigée par les clercs de St. Viateur, Côteau St. Louis (près Montréal) (s.n.], 1875), by Alf. Bélanger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gesammelte Schriften (E. Wiegandt, 1912), by Samuel Heinicke, Paul Schumann, and Georg Schumann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Étude sur les sourds-muets ... (Jouve, 1917), by Robert Jouet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A logic-based approach to the measurement of deductive abilities in deaf and hearing persons (Civil Service Commission, Personnel Research and Development Center, Test Services Section, 1978), by Magda Munoz-Colberg, Mary Anne Nester, and Personnel Research and Development Center (U.S.). Test Services Section (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the Mackay Institution for Protestant Deaf-Mutes for the year ending ... (Printed in the Institution by the pupils, 1878), by Mackay Institution for Protestant Deaf-Mutes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes & Incidents of the Deaf and Dumb, by W. R. Roe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Deaf Subjects: Between Identities and Places (New York: NYU Press, 2009), by Brenda Jo Brueggemann (JSTOR ebook)

• Another handful of stories : thirty-seven stories by deaf storytellers transliterated from the Deaf storytellers video tape series (Division of Public Services, Gallaudet College, 1984), by Ivey B. Pittle, Barbara M. Kannapell, Roslyn Rosen, and Gallaudet College. Division of Public Services (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oral instruction of the deaf and dumb. Conference on Monday, June 30th, 1884 ... (Printed and published for the Executive Council of the International Health Exhibition, and for the Council of the Society of Arts, by W. Clowes and Sons, Limited, 1884), by London Association for the Oral Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and England) International Health Exhibition (1884 : London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Methods of educating the deaf, and opinions about the sign language (Root & Christenson, 1914), by National Association of the Deaf (page images at HathiTrust)

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