Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard by Nora Ellen Groce

Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard

Nora Ellen Groce

184 pages first pub 1984 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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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 deafness. In stark contrast to the experience of most Deaf people in our own society, th...

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