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ekgranstro's review
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
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Graphic: Ableism
brihoneycutt's review
slow-paced
0.5
Had to read this book for my ASL class. I did not enjoy it. I don’t know why my professor made us read a book written by a hearing person. The book was unorganized and quite boring. I had to fight my way through each chapter.
bethanyybradshaw's review
3.0
this nonfiction chronicles the lives of several students and faculty of new york’s lexington school for the deaf. they immerse themselves in their deaf culture and are proud of it. but the hearing community doesn’t understand or see the value of this way of life. we experience the dual lives of many deaf children who have to grow up in a hearing world.
i gained a lot of insight into deaf culture and the controversies that abound within. i also learned of some unseen struggles that the deaf face. however, i felt as if i was going through motions at some times. the same topics replayed over and over in a different light. an interesting read to consider for those interested in deaf culture.
i gained a lot of insight into deaf culture and the controversies that abound within. i also learned of some unseen struggles that the deaf face. however, i felt as if i was going through motions at some times. the same topics replayed over and over in a different light. an interesting read to consider for those interested in deaf culture.
bibliodiversidad's review
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
As I became a student of Deaf teachers while learning Argentinian Sign Language (LSA) and preparing to study interpretation, I, inevitably, started finding myself both fascinated and outraged by their culture and injustices respectively, found it necessary to engage more deeply in the way I find most comfortable, which is reaserching and reading—this book has been an incredible reasource, a witness' tale to what the Deaf community has been puting up and dealing with for ages. Despite being written in the 90s, it has tackled issues that my teachers still feel conflicted about today: issues like mainstreaming and professional neglect in dire situations were topics we talked about just last week in class.
This read was as eye-opening, as sometimes frustrating; inspirational and reflective, as though at certain points it felt defeatist introspectively—which I'd like to think wasn't the intention and I'm just percieving it that way.
It has made me wonder and compare how times have changed regarding Deaf activism, specially as a hearing person I can't help but question whether this movement has become stuck or I'm simply not hearing about it. In Argentina we've recently had a law pass for the recognition of sign language as a natural language and it makes me think, did it really have to take all this time? How much more time for the next step, the next right? This book has helped expand on my own introspection and perspective of hearing (the able-bodied) people and our neglectful, downright disrepectful actions towards other who don't conform the great majority of society. We ought to do better and I hope Deaf and Disabled people come forward to turn our world downside up with justice.
This read was as eye-opening, as sometimes frustrating; inspirational and reflective, as though at certain points it felt defeatist introspectively—which I'd like to think wasn't the intention and I'm just percieving it that way.
It has made me wonder and compare how times have changed regarding Deaf activism, specially as a hearing person I can't help but question whether this movement has become stuck or I'm simply not hearing about it. In Argentina we've recently had a law pass for the recognition of sign language as a natural language and it makes me think, did it really have to take all this time? How much more time for the next step, the next right? This book has helped expand on my own introspection and perspective of hearing (the able-bodied) people and our neglectful, downright disrepectful actions towards other who don't conform the great majority of society. We ought to do better and I hope Deaf and Disabled people come forward to turn our world downside up with justice.