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Deaf Children in the Classroom

Date: 10 30 1931
Description: Four deaf children are sitting at a table playing at life experiences at Doty School. Sentences on the blackboard describe their activity to help them lear...
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Expression Class in Deaf School

Date: 10 30 1931
Description: A teacher and seven students are holding pictures in "Expression class" in a deaf classroom at Doty school, 351 W. Wilson Street. A boy is standing in fron...
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Longfellow School Disabled Students

Date: 10 30 1931
Description: Disabled students with crutches, wheelchairs and other aids for locomotion holding a club meeting at Longfellow School in the Greenbush neighborhood.
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Nursery School for Slow Learners

Date: 11 18 1955
Description: Patricia Mathisen (Mrs. George), member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority alumnae group, sponsor of the Nursery School for Slow Learners at the First Congregat...
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Nursery School for Slow Learners

Date: 11 18 1955
Description: Dorcas Nichles (Mrs. Robert J., Jr.), member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority alumnae group who sponsored the Nursery School for Slow Learners at the First Co...
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Nursery School for Slow Learners

Date: 11 18 1955
Description: Virginia Gibson (Mrs. Harley L.) and Jean M. Schilling (Mrs. William H.), members of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority alumnae group which sponsors the Nursery Sc...
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Three Hearing Impaired Children Leave for Camp

Date: 07 30 1955
Description: Three hearing impaired children leaving in a car for "The Retreat," a summer camp near Wautoma, Wisconsin. The trip is sponsored by the Parents Council for...
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Tommy Manning

Date: 02 18 1953
Description: Joan Kain, speech therapist, helps Tommy Manning, age 3, who has cerebral palsy, learn to talk by showing him objects on a display board. It is part of hi...
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David Lindl with Teacher

Date: 03 14 1955
Description: David Lindl who has muscular dystrophy, shown with his teacher, Patricia Farrell. David is one of many handicapped persons who is helped by the sale of Eas...
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Governor Goodland with Handicapped Children

Date: 04 15 1944
Description: Governor Walter Goodland seated with handicapped children, probably in a movie theater. A large cutout of Dopey, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is o...
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Shriners Yule Party

Date: 12 18 1947
Description: Floyd Ferrill leads a group of handicapped children in a Christmas carol at the Madison Shriners yule party at the Washington Orthopedic School, 545 West D...
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Washington School Hearing Clinic

Date: 07 15 1948
Description: Participants in a large-scale hearing clinic held at Washington School in Madison and sponsored by the University of Wisconsin departments of speech and ed...
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Washington School Hearing Clinic

Date: 07 15 1948
Description: Participants in a large-scale hearing clinic held at Washington School in Madison and sponsored by the University of Wisconsin departments of speech and ed...
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Washington School Hearing Clinic

Date: 07 15 1948
Description: Participants in a large-scale hearing clinic held at Washington School in Madison and sponsored by the University of Wisconsin departments of speech and ed...
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University of Wisconsin Summer Speech Clinic

Date: 08 11 1948
Description: Five children outdoors blowing bubbles in front of their teacher, Betty Suliver, at the summer speech clinic at the Orthopedic Hospital, 1415 Linden Drive....
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University of Wisconsin Summer Speech Clinic

Date: 08 11 1948
Description: Six children blowing on pinwheels for breath control in front of their teacher, Mrs. Elizabeth Musick, at the summer speech clinic at the Orthopedic Hospit...
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Children in Foster Care

Date: 03 21 1950
Description: Under the eye of Esther Ruf and her daughter Karen, second from right, four handicapped children in foster care enjoy some games.
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Council for Mentally Retarded Children

Date: 09 27 1950
Description: Officers of the Madison unit of the Wisconsin Council for Mentally Retarded Children, seated around a table. Left to right: Mrs. E.K. (Flora) Steul, public...
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Demonstration of Techniques to Help Hearing-Handicapped Children

Date: 02 07 1951
Description: Mrs. Ella Zillner, Madison Public Schools teacher of hearing-impaired children, demonstrates learning techniques she uses with two of her students before a...
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Attic Angel Association Spring Luncheon

Date: 05 23 1951
Description: Mrs. Harley Graf and her hard-of-hearing son, Bobby, have lunch with Mrs. George C. (Dorothy) Guild on the lawn of Mrs. S.L. Odegard's residence on Lake Me...

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