Journey Into the Deaf World

A New Language Minority Has Come to the Fore in America and Around the World. It is the Tight-Knit Society -- Some Million Strong in the United States -- That Calls Itself, in American Sign Language, the Deaf-World. It Has a History, a Flourishing Culture, and a Political Agenda. a Journey Into the Deaf-World is the Compelling Story of This Much Misunderstood Minority As It Struggles for Self-Determination. Journey Address Questions Such As These What is Deaf Culture All About?; How Are Deaf Children Raised and Educated and How Should They Be?; What Do Signed Language and Deaf Culture Have to Offer the Deaf Child -- and Hearing People?; What Can We Learn From Deaf Societies in Other Lands?; How Does Technology Help -- and Hinder -- Deaf People?; How to Deaf People Integrate Into the Larger Society?.