To Help The Deaf
NY physical defect is a handicap, but deafness is one of the worst. The deaf person reasons "Nobody wants me because I can’t hear. Therefore I’m useless." He may become emotionally unstable, timid, super-sensitive, bitter, and suspicious. Life is a tangle of problems unless he can be shown how to help himself. What is said to be the first constructive effort to help the hard-of-hearing was made in Berlin in 1901 by Fraulein Margaretha von Witzleben, who formed a league to Help these people socially and in their business life. The idea spread through the world till to-day almost every country has its Hard-of-Hearing League. There are, in . New Zealand, probably 40,000 people handicapped by deafness, but our league, founded in 1932, is able to help many of them with lip-reading classes, hearing aids, vocational guidance, and general cultural outlets. On Tuesday, February 22, at 7.5 p.m. the Very Rev. G. C. Cruickshank will give a talk from 4YA explaining this work.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 243, 18 February 1944, Page 15
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166To Help The Deaf New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 243, 18 February 1944, Page 15
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