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The Educational and Communication Needs of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children: A Statement of Principle on Fundamental Educational Change
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The Need for Fundamental Change
In his 1862 message to Congress, Abraham Lincoln stated that "the dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew (Lincoln, 1862/1940, p. 745).
The words of Lincoln, president when Gallaudet University was established, are a timely challenge to the present educational system for deaf and hard of hearing children, many of whom have the dubious distinction of being the only students in this nation who go to school without access to the most fundamental of educational components: communication. …
