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  • TitleUnique audio-visual machine aids handicapped youngsters
  • Call NumberHOSP_0328
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Unique audio-visual machine aids handicapped youngsters--Mrs. Audrey Smith Hofnung, chief of speech therapy at the Jewish Sanitarium and Hospital for Chronic Diseases, E. 49th St. and Rutland Road, demonstrates the use of the 'Chromovox,' a unique audio-visual machine for use in speech therapy. The 'Chromovox' operates by the use of a microphone through which the teacher identifies objects in moving pictures which appear on the screen in the center of the machine. Individual headsets permit several youngsters to be treated simultaneously. Thery repeat the words after the teacher while looking at the pictures."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Mar. 14, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle; Jay Sharp photos. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorSharp, Jay
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHospitals -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sanatoriums -- New York (State) -- New York ; Speech therapists -- New York (State) -- New York ; Speech therapy for children -- Exercises -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.