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“In education, like everything in America, money ruled the day, and Deaf education had been hyperstratified by the rise of the cochlear implant. Wealthier kids whose parents could pay out-of-pocket for implant surgery and rehabilitative therapies often found success in the main-stream; kids whose families couldn't pay stayed deaf.”

“It wasn’t until later he learned that ASL had likely been withheld intentionally, an attempt to motivate speech. Sign Language had been so thoroughly stigmatized that in trying to avoid it parents had unknowingly opted for a modern version of institutionalization, locking their children away in their own minds.”

Absolutely amazing so far. Anyone who knows a deaf person should read this!! It would be an AMAZING book club book with all of the instructional ASL blurbs and content

Accidentally reserved at the library, but I read the first chapter and I’m already so obsessed so my other books will have to wait