Research Recommendations of the Second Conference on Problems of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Reprint and Circular Series of the National Research Council (1929) / Chapter Skim
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Harris Taylor, Principal of the New York Institution for the Improved Instruction of the Deaf, and Miss Josephine Timberlake, Superintendent of the Volta Bureau, were especially helpful. The scope of the Conference was enlarged to include the problems of the hard of hearing, as well as those of the deaf.
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Dr. Vernon Kellogg, Permanent Secretary of the National Research Council, welcomed the Novembers and extended the Council's commendation of the purpose of the Conference.
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THE COMMITTEE ON RESEARCH FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING The Executive Committee of the Division approved the action recommended by the First Conference; and the National Research Council, on nomination from the Division, appointed a committee of six members,
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" As is usual with most of my public appearances, I am not prepared to speak upon the subject which is uppermost in your mind; but, as I understand it, this is a part of the National Research Council; and I want to say that I am here because of the name National Research Council and what it means to us. " The National Research Council is a good illustration of what the authoritative mobilization of talent can do in this country.
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In his absence, however, may I assure you still of the great interest which the National Research Council has in the problems to which you are to give attention today and tomorrow; and I assure you also of your welcome here for the purposes of these discussions. " The importance of the problems concerning aural mechanism and function has been impressed upon the National Research Council for a good many years.
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Pintner, Chairman of the Division's Committee on Research for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, to present the Committee's report to the Conference for its consideration. This report, the body of which contained the Committee's research recommendations to the Conference, was prefaced as follows: The Committee on Research for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, appointed by the National Research Council in the Division of Anthropology and Psychology in compliance with the request of the first Conference on Problems of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, herewith submits its report to the Second Conference.
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In closing the business session, the Chairman spoke as follows: " On behalf of the National Research Council, I express to the members of the Conference on Problems of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing our great appreciation of the work done by the Conference, and to the committees our congratulations upon the results which have been achieved." On motion of Dr. Anderson it was: Voted, That the Conference express its appreciation of the many courtesies extended by the National Research Council during the meeting of the Conference, and empower the Chairman to express to them and to the donors of the funds which made the Conference possible, its sincere appreciation.
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" I shall not refer to the now familiar statements regarding the decreasing death rates, and the practical banishment of most of the great pestilential diseases from civilized countries, further than to call attention to the fact that the progress here represented has been chiefly due to researches in the communicable diseases of parasitic origin. This group is the one which thus far has received the most intensive attention, and the progress made has encouraged us to hope that the solution of the problems offered by those communicable diseases which still resist, will only be a matter of time-and hard work.
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" Therefore, while we should with unabated zeal work for the rehabilitation of those who are already handicapped, we should not forget that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and should see to it that all agencies which may be employed to head off, in some measure, this stream of affliction at its source, are given the recognition and the means to exert their potential influence, and by research to devise improved methods." Following General Cumming's address, the following unscheduled appreciation was presented by Dr. Gordon Berry: This closes a year in which we have been identified with the National Research Council in its consideration of the Problems off the Deaf.
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