Customer Review: I am the hearing parent of a Deaf child and I have very mixed feelings about this book.
On the one hand, I find it very informative and it explains Deaf culture and the history of Deaf education very passionately and accurately. On the other hand, the information about cochlear implants and... more info
Customer Review: Renown deaf advocate Lane injects himself as Laurent Clerc to write the history of deaf work in America, which began in France. Briefly this review will attempt to broadbrush some of the consistent historical strokes with which Lane's account through Clerc paints. First, from the outset the... more info
Customer Review: Harlan Lane is a psychologist and the author of a scientific study of the 'wild boy of Aveyron,' the most famous case of a genuine feral child. In 1974 a child was discovered in Burundi, apparently living with monkeys. Lane traveled to Africa with psychiatrist Richard Pillard to study the boy, and... more info
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