The authoritative statement on the deaf, their education, and their struggle against prejudice.

The authoritative statement on the deaf, their education, and their struggle against prejudice. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology,

Using original sources, this unique book focuses on the Deaf community during the 19th century. Largely through schools for the deaf, deaf people began to devel

From the seventeenth century to the early years of the twentieth, the population of Martha’s Vineyard manifested an extremely high rate of profound hereditary