A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America
, by Van Cleve, John Vickrey; Crouch, Barry A.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780930323493 | 0930323491
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 4/1/1989
An exemplar of the history of disability and an innovative work that pushes it in a new direction. -- Journal of Social History
A concise yet thorough and accessible history of the deaf community, its schools, and its long struggle to maintain a cohesive community...sometimes against formidable odds. it shows quite clearly, sometimes inspiringly so, that deafness is not a curse.
Using original sources, this unique book focuses on the Deaf community during the nineteenth century. Largely through schools for the deaf, deaf people began to develop a common language and a sense of community.
A Place of Their Own brings the perspective of history to bear on the reality of deafness and provides fresh and important insight into the lives of deaf Americans.