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occupations

• Professions
• Different jobs
• Discussion on vocational training
• Interpretation services open up new study opportunities
• First vocational schools
• Nikkarila household management school
• Surdus, a printing house for deaf people
• Turku’s vocational school for the deaf

personal history

• Rurik Pitkänen
• Torsten Rikström
• Svante Lagergrén
• Savisaari family
• The Ritalas and the Talvias
• The Stadius
• Raija Nieminen
• Elin Carlstedt
• Oskar Wetzell
• Martin Hellöre
• Maria Lovisa Klingenberg
• Julius Hirn
• Jarmo Narmala
• John Sundberg
• Ida Mouton
• Hulda Hakala
• Elma Eklund
• Fritz Hirn
• Carl Henrik Alopaeus
• Bruno Mouton
• Aura Ahlbäck
• Antti Jokelainen

organizations

• Organizations
• Deaf associations
• A second home
• The Finnish Association of the deaf is founded
• Activities in the early years
• Defining goals
• Operations become more diverse
• A strong expert

deaf education

• Deaf education
• Early stages of deaf education
• Argillander as a trailblazer
• Malm’s school in Porvoo
• A state school begins operations in Turku
• More schools are founded
• Goals of deaf education
• The goals change
• The era of oralism
• The school system undergoes changes
• Boarding schools
• Sign language and bilingualism

deaf awareness

• Deaf awareness
• Emergence of Deaf Awareness and its goals
• Arrival of Deaf Awareness in Finland
• Deaf awareness and the goals of the community
• Deaf awareness and new concepts

oralism

• Oralism
• Speech or sign language?
• Samuel Heinicke, the father of oralism, and Moritz Hill, a reformer of the oral method
• Oralism arrives in Finland
• The oral method is given a formal status
• The oral method in tuition
• Ideologies driving oralism
• Oralism and the deaf community

family

• Family life
• Tsar’s permission for marriage
• Deaf families and marriages outside the community
• Marriage ban
• Empty nests
• Law changes
• Deaf and hearing children

religious life

• Religious life
• Religious studies and devotionals
• A travelling clergyman for the deaf
• The travelling minister’s diverse tasks
• Collaboration with deaf organisations
• Deaconesses for the deaf
• Church employees and sign language
• Social and interpretation services become more professional

what's on

• What’s on

collections

• Donations
• Collections

donations

• Donations

education

for hearing

• For hearing

info

• Collections

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