Hand, Heart, and Mind: The Story of the Education of America's Deaf People |  | Author: Lou Ann Walker
Publisher: Dial
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1406756
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0803712251
Dewey Decimal Number: 371.9120973
EAN: 9780803712256
ASIN: 0803712251
Publication Date: March 1, 1994
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The hands, hearts, and minds of America's Deaf April 13, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
An intriguing history of the education of the deaf starting with ancient times to the middle ages. In the early 1800s, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet went to Europe and one year later returned with Laurent Clerc, a deaf priest and teacher of the deaf. Together they began the American School for the Deaf. Alexander Graham Bell who was a strong advocate of oralism while Gallaudet endorsed using American Sign Language. These two famous people started a raging war that continues today. There is extensive coverage about the "Deaf President Now" revolt that occurred in 1988 when a hearing president was selected for Gallaudet University (the only university for the deaf). The students successfully demanded that their school have a deaf president. An excellent book about the history of how the deaf have been repressed and slowly becoming liberated. As the mother of a deaf daughter, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book.
A facinating account of the "under dogs" story! March 2, 1999
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Hand, Heart, and Mind is an awesome book! It really touched me because I know 3 deaf people. I never knew the hardships that those people went through. I thuroughly enjoyed this book!
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