Any one who has read these pages will easily see that the suggestions are all aimed to secure for the deaf a treatment similar in kind, though somewhat different in degree, to that accorded the normal hearing person. The tendency has been to differentiate the deaf too much from the hearing. By adopting the procedure of pure oralism, effectively applied under _real oral conditions_, uncontaminated, during the educational period from five to twenty years of age, by finger spelling or signs, the deaf will be far more fully restored to a normal position in the social and industrial world than they can ever be by the silent methods at present so largely used during their most impressionable years. XXVII SOME NOTS Do not be downcast. Deafness does not, necessarily, bring dumbness. Do not consider the deaf child as different from other children. Do not cease talking to him. Do not speak with exaggerated facial movements. Do not exempt him from the duties and tasks and obedience properly demanded of all children. Do not let him grow selfish. Do not let him grow indifferent. Do not be in haste. Do not show impatience.