Lillie Eginton Warren | |
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| Born | January 25, 1859 Newtonville, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | DOD unknown |
| Occupation | educator, author, school founder, inventor |
| Language | English |
| Subject | deaf education |
| Notable works | Defective Speech and Deafness |
Lillie Eginton Warren (January 25, 1859 – ?) was an American educator and an author of work upon defective speech. She was the inventor of the Warren Method of Expression Reading and Numerical Cipher. This method was a patented series of pictures of the expressions of the facial muscles produced by articulate speech by which it was possible for a deaf person to understand conversation by the eyes alone.[1] Until the 1890s, deaf education was limited to children, but Warren and her assistant, Edward Nichie, expanded the scope of work to adults.[2]
Warren was principal of the Warren School of Articulation and Expression-Reading, in New York City, an institution founded by her and which had branches in Boston, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and Chicago. As a teacher of expression-reading to persons growing deaf, Warren achieved some remarkable results. She devoted her life to the work, first taking it up in 1879. She was the inventor of a method of teaching hard-of-hearing adults to enjoy conversation, a system that was styled expression-reading and which was entirely different from any other method yet devised, a patent (#US726484A) being awarded Warren for her discovery by the United States Patent and Trademark Office in 1903.[3][4]
- ^ Leonard, Mohr & Holmes 1905, p. 933.
- ^ Hartbauer 1975, p. 6.
- ^ Publishing Society of New York 1906, p. 86.
- ^ Warren, Lillie Eginton (1903). "Means for teaching reading of the facial expressions which occur in speaking". IFI CLAIMS Patent Services. Retrieved 2 January 2018.