We should respect the attitudes and support the self-esteem of the deaf community, but even more we should recognize every community's place in the larger human community.
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Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture
by Carol Padden, Tom Humphries
Refusing to accept the limitations others have placed on the deaf, the authors--themselves deaf--argue for a deaf culture, one united by & expressed thru the American Sign Language.
A long, painful experience of hearing intolerance has generally kept Deaf culture fairly closed to outsiders, even sympathetic ones. But now Padden & Humphries...have written a charming...more
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