Edith Mansford Fitzgerald opposed these views, as a deaf woman who felt that the oralist methods had stunted her learning.[23] In 1926, she published a book, entitled Straight Language for the Deaf: A System of Instruction for Deaf Children was published in 1926 and was widely influential in the field of deaf education.[24] Her Fitzgerald Key at one point was used in around 75% of the institutes teaching the deaf.[25]