Example sentences of "for the deaf [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also associated with the Glasgow Institute for the Deaf as a director . |
| 2 | In addition it has been suggested that bureaux make contact with the social worker for the deaf at the local Social Services Department to ensure that the bureau has all the up-to-date information relevant to the deaf . |
| 3 | However , popular legend has it that Andrew Patterson , then Headmaster at the Manchester Schools for the Deaf at Old Trafford , was perturbed to counter on several occasions a group of ex-pupils gathered around a certain gas-lamp in the city — the gas-lamp being a popular meeting place of local deaf people ( this was the subject of a Victorian drama as well . ) |
| 4 | Lowe continued his career until 1871 when he fell victim to a pulmonary disease which prevented him from joining the services for the deaf at the new St. Saviour 's Church . |
| 5 | The Rev. Thomas Arnold , founder of the Oral School for the Deaf at Northampton in 1868 after trying out the system with only a limited success with a special class at the Yorkshire Institution where that great advocate of sign language , Charles Baker , was Principal , did probably more than any other person to establish the oral system in Britain with the fine academic record of his school . |
| 6 | At the age of 8 he was sent to the private school for the deaf at Rugby run by Mr. Bingham , formerly headmaster of the West of England Institution at Exeter . |
| 7 | Of his education little is known but it seems likely that his family engaged a private tutor for him — he may have also have been a private fee-paying pupil at the West of England School for the Deaf at Exeter . |
| 8 | Also opened , in 1905 , was the Sir James E. Jones Industrial Training School attached to the Royal Residential Schools for the Deaf at Old Trafford which sought to teach school-leavers the bootmaking , tailoring , carpentry and bakery trades . |
| 9 | He was educated at the private school for the deaf at Rugby , and then by private tutors — all entirely by sign language and fingerspelling , as was his sister . |
| 10 | When the First World War broke out in 1914 schools were on holiday , which proved to be an advantage to the military authorities who promptly requisitioned the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf at Doncaster and the Dundee School for the Deaf . |
| 11 | As it was , George Scott — who was later to captain the victorious Great Britain soccer team at the World Games for the Deaf at Amsterdam in 1928 ( see photograph on page 310 ) — but then a small schoolboy at Donaldson 's remembers : |
| 12 | The first International Games for the Deaf at Paris in 1924 created such interest that the B.D.D.A. 's Congress at Southampton included an international football match between England and Wales , which was won by England 3–0 . |
| 13 | Another casualty of this bombing raid was the Royal West of England School for the Deaf at Exeter , which at that time had seemed a safe haven , not only for the children of the area the school served , but also for the 52 children and staff of the Anerley School for the Deaf , London , who had been evacuated there on 14th September 1939 . |
| 14 | Other schools which suffered wartime bomb damage included the East Anglian School at Gorleston-on-Sea which also had its headmaster 's house destroyed , the Royal West of England School at Exeter as previously stated , and the Royal Cambrian School for the Deaf at Swansea . |
| 15 | It was renamed Gallaudet College in 1894 in honour of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet , founder in 1817 of the first American school for the deaf at Hartford , Connecticut , and became Gallaudet University , on being granted university status in 1987 . |
| 16 | From teaching they moved into mission work and in 1901 began their careers in this field as Superintendent and Matron respectively of the Institute for the Deaf at Bolton , Lancashire . |
| 17 | Doctor Denmark recently retired as head of the Psychiatric unit for the Deaf at Whittingham Hospital , Preston , which was partially funded by the BDA . |
| 18 | Educated at Edinburgh 's Donaldson 's School for the Deaf and the Mary Hare Grammar School for the Deaf at Newbury Lilian 's academic achievements include a BSC Honours Degree in Zoology ( Edinburgh ) and a postgraduate MBA in Business Studies ( Strathclyde ) . |
| 19 | Donaldson 's Hospital School for the Deaf was evacuated to Cockburnspath and North Berwick ; the nursery department of the Royal Schools for the Deaf , Manchester , was evacuated to Middlewich in Cheshire ; the Old Kent Road School for the Deaf to St. Alban , Glamorgan , temporarily before relocating at Banstead , Surrey , where they were joined by Anerley School for the Deaf who had originally evacuated to the Royal Cross School , Preston thence to the Royal West of England School at Exeter , hurriedly evacuating the latter following the Baedeker Raids on Exeter in 1942 . |
| 20 | He maintained his strong links with the world of the deaf formed during his two years at the Institution by getting together with Matthew Burns , q.v. , and Alexander Blackwood to start Sunday services for the deaf of Edinburgh in June 1830 . |
| 21 | This gave an additional but different response to sound ( a tingling feeling ) in addition to the sensation of vibration ( as shown in a paper prepared for a research conference on ‘ Speech-processing aids for the deaf by Scott , Defilippo , Sach and Miller , of St Louis ) . |
| 22 | The report on the dedication of this memorial in the Loughborough Church for the Deaf by the Bishop of Leicester is printed in the first number of The British Deaf News , which made its debut as the BDDA 's official organ in January 1955 . |
| 23 | Archibald Geikie somehow learnt the manual alphabet , and there being no school for the deaf in Edinburgh at that time ( Braidwood 's Academy had moved to Hackney in 1783 ) , undertook the teaching of his son himself . |
| 24 | Monsignore de Haerne had previously already founded Catholic institutions for the deaf in Belgium , France and Portugal and was later to found one in India . |
| 25 | The founding , and the success , of the first five adult organisations for the deaf in Britain at Glasgow , Edinburgh , London ( St. Saviours ) , Manchester and Leeds prompted many deaf people in other parts of the country to seek the same sort of opportunities for themselves . |
| 26 | Hitherto , provision of adult deaf organisations had largely been confined to church services and other pastoral services , but in 1871 , a most important step was taken with the founding of Glasgow Deaf and Dumb Football Club , the first sports dub for the deaf in this country . |
| 27 | Momentous things were also happening socially in the North-West of England following the highly successful venture by the local society in the opening of the first social club for the deaf in the country in 1878 at Manchester . |
| 28 | In 1879 Pearce , the Owen cousins , and the Rev. Samuel Smith of St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf in London got together and established the Winchester Diocesan Adult Deaf and Dumb Mission . |
| 29 | On occasion , however , Alexandra would sometimes get her way and drag the Prince to services at the church she favoured , St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf in Oxford Street , where she could enjoy being in the company of other deaf people , and be able to follow the services , as she was a fluent fingerspeller . |
| 30 | He lived for most of the time at his family seat at Laxton Hall , Northamptonshire , with his wife and only daughter , and frequented St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf in London . |