§ 33. Mr. R. MORRISONasked the President of the Board of Education, in view of the fact that the teaching of the English language to deaf mutes, whether by means of the finger alphabet or by the more difficult method of speech and lip-reading, is a work which demands a specially trained teacher, what steps his Department is taking to provide an adequate supply of teachers who are fully qualified to undertake this important work?
§ Mr. TREVELYANThe University of Manchester provides a special course of training for teachers of the deaf, which is recognised and assisted by the Board. Teachers who do not take this course before taking a post in a school for deaf children are expected, as a rule, to qualify themselves by passing an examination approved by the Board in the methods of teaching in schools for deaf children.