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A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America
A Place of Their Own Creating the Deaf Community in America Author:John Vickrey Van Cleve, Barry A. Crouch Using original sources, A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America traces the history of deaf people in America. It views deafness not from the perspective of pathology, but of culture, not as a disease or a disability to be overcome, but as the distinguishing characteristic of a distinct community of individua... more »ls whose history and achievement are worthy of study.
Focusing on the development of the American deaf community during the nineteenth century, A Place of Their Own brings history to bear on the reality of deafness and provides fresh and important insight into the lives of deaf Americans.« less