A look at educational developments taking place for deaf children through cultivating their reactions to sound vibrations.
Mother Mary Nicholas, Principal of Saint Mary's Dominican School for Deaf Girls in Cabra explains the approaches they use for assessing levels of deafness in children. She also talks about corresponding treatments available to help children to develop speech. The techniques involve measuring the child's reaction to sounds and vibrations.
The RTÉ Guide described the programme as being about
Deafness and its implications featuring the work being done in a combined school-cum-clinic for the deaf. It shows how, when active sympathy and understanding go hand-in-hand with science, the deaf person's intelligence can be freed from its stultifying world of silence and allowed to develop.
(RTÉ Guide, 3 June 1966, Vol.3, No.23, p.12)
This episode of 'Horizon' was broadcast on 5 June 1966. The reporter is John Dowling.
'Horizon' was first broadcast on RTÉ Television on Sunday 20 September 1964. The programme was described in the RTÉ Guide as a weekly series on matters of religious interest, presenting a variety of topics drawn from Ireland and abroad.
