| Table of Contents |
| | Acknowledgments | |
| | In surdam memoriam / Karl Jaekel | |
| | Contributors | |
| | Prologue: Autobiography of Laurent Clerc / Laurent Clerc | 1 |
| Pt. I | "Scattered as we are and lost among the hearing": Life in the Hearing World | 11 |
| | 1 | On Planing a Deaf-Mute Commonwealth [et al.] / J. J. Flournoy, Edmund Booth | 13 |
| | 2 | Coming to California / Albert Ballin | 27 |
| | 3 | What a Deaf Jewish Leader Expects of a Rabbi / Frederick C. Schreiber | 33 |
| | 4 | How to Write Like a Hearing Reporter / Tom Willard | 38 |
| | 5 | CBS Hurt Deaf Children with "Caitlin's Story," / Jack Levesque | 40 |
| | 6 | Who Speaks for the Deaf Community? Not Who You Would Think! / Elizabeth L. Broecker | 43 |
| | 7 | My Life on Paper / Shanny Mow | 48 |
| | 8 | Away from Invisibility, Toward Invincibility: Issues with Deaf Theatre Artists in America / Willy Conley | 51 |
| | 9 | This Child Is Mine: Deaf Parents and Their Adopted Deaf Children / Barbara J. White | 68 |
| Pt. II | "The noblest gift God has given to deaf people": American Sign Language and Its Literature | 81 |
| | 10 | The Preservation of the Sign Language / George W. Veditz, Carol A. Padden, Eric Malzkuhn | 83 |
| | 11 | From Student to Professional: A Personal Chronicle of Sign Language / Gilbert Eastman | 86 |
| | 12 | Black Signs: Whatever Happened to the Sign for "CORNBREAD"? / Ernest Hairston, Linwood Smith | 97 |
| | 13 | Reflections of American Deaf Culture in Deaf Humor / M. J. Bienvenu | 99 |
| | 14 | Folk Explanation in Language Survival / Carol A. Padden | 104 |
| | 15 | Let's Return ASL to Deaf Ownership / Jack Levesque | 116 |
| | 16 | What Happens When Languages Come in Contact / Ceil Lucas, Clayton Valli | 118 |
| | 17 | I've Had Enough of the I-Love-You Sign, Thanks / Tom Willard | 123 |
| | 18 | Traditions: Hispanic, American, Deaf Culture: Which Takes Precedence in Trilingual Interpreter Training? / Ralph Sedano | 124 |
| | 19 | Rathskellar: Some Oral-Traditional and Not-So-Traditional Characteristics of ASL Literature / Cynthia Lohr Peters | 129 |
| | 20 | In Search of the Perfect Sign-Language Script: Insights into the Diverse Writing Styles of Deaf Playwrights / Willy Conley | 147 |
| Pt. III | "The medicine that swallowed the patient": Deaf Education | 163 |
| | 21 | The Associative Feature in the Education of the Deaf / George Wing | 165 |
| | 22 | The Attitude of the Adult Deaf towards Pure Oralism / Amos G. Draper | 175 |
| | 23 | The Fable of the Ass Who Was Taught to Whinny / Warren Milton Smaltz | 184 |
| | 24 | The Graduate / Albert Ballin | 186 |
| | 25 | The Deaf Adult's Point of View / Frederick C. Schreiber | 188 |
| | 26 | Black Deaf Students / Ernest Hairston, Linwood Smith | 193 |
| | 27 | Who's Itching to Get into Mainstreaming? / Ben Bahan | 199 |
| | 28 | The Real Meaning of "Hearing Impaired" / Angela Stratiy | 203 |
| | 29 | Do We Continue This Tragedy? / Jack Levesque | 205 |
| | 30 | A Taboo Exposed: Using ASL in the Classroom / Clayton Valli | 207 |
| | 31 | Deaf-centric Teaching: A Case Study in ASL-English Bilingualism / Cynthia Nesse Bailes | 211 |
| Pt. IV | "Impressed with the value of character": The Deaf Ethic | 235 |
| | 32 | Vagrancy among Deaf-Mutes / H. M. Chamberlayne | 237 |
| | 33 | Miss Martineau and Deaf-Mutes / Edmund Booth | 239 |
| | 34 | The habit of being prompt ... Unsigned | 241 |
| | 35 | Finding Men for Jobs / B. M. Schowe | 243 |
| | 36 | The Development of Postwar Employment / B. M. Schowe | 251 |
| | 37 | A Review of the Little Paper Family for 1944-45 / Thomas A. Ulmer | 257 |
| | 38 | Place of the Adult Deaf in Society / Toivo Lindholm | 269 |
| | 39 | What Exactly Am I Supposed to Overcome? / Tom Willard | 273 |
| | 40 | Thoughts on the Effects of Provisions for the Deaf / David J. Kurs, Benjamin J. Bahan | 275 |
| | 41 | 'Til All Barriers Crumble and Fall: Agatha Tiegel's Presentation Day Speech in April 1893 / Katherine Jankowski | 284 |
| | 42 | Dummy Hoy: "Play Ball!" / James A. Nickerson | 296 |
| Pt. V | "Strengthening the spirit of clannishness": The Deaf Community | 303 |
| | 43 | Racism within the Deaf Community / Glenn B. Anderson, Frank G. Bowe | 305 |
| | 44 | GLAD Publishes Position Paper on Cochlear Implants / Carol Padden | 309 |
| | 45 | Reflections on The Deaf Way / Bob Alcorn | 316 |
| | 46 | Can Deaf People Survive "deafness"? / M. J. Bienvenu | 318 |
| | 47 | Cochlear Implants vs. Deaf Culture? / Kathryn Woodcock | 325 |
| | 48 | Into Their Own Hands: The Deaf President Now Protest and Its Consequences / Sharon A. Barnartt, John B. Christiansen | 333 |
| | 49 | Of Deaf-Mutes, the Strange, and the Modern Deaf Self / Tom Humphries | 348 |
| | 50 | The Hearing Agenda II: Eradicating the DEAF-WORLD / Harlan Lane, Robert Hoffmeister, Ben Bahan | 365 |
| | 51 | Deaf Women Now: Establishing Our Niche / Martha A. Sheridan | 380 |
| | 52 | Contemporary Native Deaf Experience: Overdue Smoke Rising / Valerie L. Dively | 390 |
| | 53 | Cochlear Implants and Deaf Identity / A. Philip Aiello, Myrna Alello | 406 |
| | 54 | Signing Off / Bruce A. White | 413 |
| | Further Reading / Arlene Blumenthal Kelly | 417 |
| | Permissions | 423 |
| | Index | 427 |
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