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A Child Sacrificed to the Deaf Culture | 
 enlarge | Author: Tom Bertling
Publisher: Kodiak Media Group
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 1371539
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st ed
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.7 x 0.4
ISBN: 0963781340
Dewey Decimal Number: 419
EAN: 9780963781345
ASIN: 0963781340
Publication Date: April 1994
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 Inaccurate at best May 30, 2008
I have known deaf people all my life, as a child and up through adulthood. I have many different kinds of deaf friends. Ones who were orally taught, Total Communication, and ASL. It is actually quite rare to find someone who grew up with ASL and also taught ASL through school. Most, 80%, are in Total Communication programs across the country. Total Communication uses all kinds of manually coded English to teach. There is much research and documentation about how this form of education does not work. Case in point is that 80% of hearing impaired have a T.C. education and another percentage has oral communication who all count in the statistics of deaf having a 4th grade reading level. The [...] which have been documented in many different research projects and different sources.
I fell into teaching the deaf and have been teaching for many years. ASL immersion and BI/BI education hasn't been around very long. The [...] would definitly have not been at a school using ASL. Or where many of the Deaf or Hearing used ASL in the dorms but perhaps some form of uneducated signing. Through my experience, many deaf who have never critically looked at language, incorrectly identify what is Signed English and what is ASL. I grew up using sign language but didn't understand the difference between the two until having taken graduate level linguistic classes and read many books.
The [...] has clearly let bad experiences during childhood be the deciding factor for all things deaf and ASL. What he says has happened did happen at many schools but there are many schools that were good at that time and other schools have improved.
We have not yet seen the product of a generation of Deaf children in ASL education. What few that have experienced, means that there just isn't enough to go on yet to say it works or not. We have evidence of what oral education did and is still doing. What have what TC is doing and still doing. The problem is when a child is misplaced to fit someone's agenda. We need all options available and children properly placed with qualified teachers.
 Jesus! At times like these, God doesn't exist. June 22, 2005
0 out of 9 found this review helpful
His book mirrored my life at a deaf school (6 long years). Girls getting pregnant left and right. One secretly married a hearing PE teacher one month before she graduated with her bludgeoning belly. Straight boys (with steady girlfriends) sacrificed their buttholes to male houseparents in order to avoid being severely punished. Looking back, living well is life's sweetest revenge.
Helpful! December 8, 2001
1 out of 11 found this review helpful
Enjoyed this helpful book. I was previously confused about deafness education and deafness schools until I read this book. Deafness schools are not for all. This book explains why. Some deafness people are angry about this book but we cannot keep hiding facts from everybody, especially parents of young kids.
help for parents of hearing impaired children December 8, 2001
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
I wish we knew of this book when our hearing impaired child was younger to better understand these deafness controversies. I recommend Sacrificed Child to parents as a must read and to share with other parents. Know more before you send your child away.
A Childish Diatribe Against the Deaf Community November 27, 2001
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
I came to read this book as a student of American Sign Language (ASL). I wanted to see the negative side of the Deaf community. I did not find it here.This book is filled with inconsistency and irrational hatred of the Deaf community. I expected a reasoned critique, but all I found was immature and poorly thought out backstabbing of a community. Like other reviewers I found gapping lapses of logic. Beyond the claims of bigotry and sexism in the Deaf community (I can find all of this in any public school or PTA meeting), Bertling picks and chooses his assessment of the Deaf community to fit his needs. On page 35 he derides the Deaf community for attempting to get a Deaf superintendent for the first time at his school (an unnamed deaf residential school) and then on page 37 he claims that the Deaf community is resistant to change! It seems he only counts changes that reflect his dislike of Deaf people in positions of power. And his take on ASL betrays bigotry and ignorance. He claims that deafness has the tragic result of "difficulty [in] obtaining a language" (pg 31). He seems to ignore the fact that ASL is a language. This is either a mistake, or just another part of his puzzling attempt to dismantle the progress in Deaf education in the past 30 years. The fact that the book is only 108 pages long comes as a relief. It would be difficult to read more of this irrational dismissal of a cultural community.
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