Hand, Heart, and Mind: The Story of the Education of America's Deaf People

By Lou Ann Walker

Book Overview

The author of Amy: The Story of a Deaf Child examines the complex struggle by deaf students, from the early 1800s to the 1988 Gallaudet University student revolt, to enhance their educational... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803712251
• ISBN13: 9780803712256
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Dial Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

The hands, hearts, and minds of America's Deaf

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!

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!