Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1880 — The Audiphone in the Wisconsin Institute for the Deaf and Dumb. [ARTICLE]

The Audiphone in the Wisconsin Institute for the Deaf and Dumb.

About six weeks ago Mr. R. S. Rhodes, of Chicago, the inventor of the audiphone, organized an audiphone class of eleven in the Wisconsin Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, at Delavan, Wis. The following is an extract from a letter bearing date of March 24, written by Mr. W. H. DeMott, the Superintendent of the Institute, to Mr. Rhodes. Other members of the class made quite as rapid progress as the pupil named in the extract: John Dahl, of Pigeon Falls, Wis., born deaf, in school four years, and taught heretofore entirely by signs. With the audiphone hears sounds in tone of ordinary conversation. Has learned to distinguish almost all sounds. Can understand and repeat a number of sentences, as “Give me a book;” “Walk to the door;’’ “I will go home;” “ I can hear you,” etc. The Hartford Society for the Prevention of Crime has within a short time enforced the marriages of four men to deserted and betrayed girls.