All deaf people use sign language.
Sign language is universal.
Deaf people live in a silent world.
Having a deaf child is a tragedy.
All deaf people would like to be cured.
How would you answered? The correct answer to every one is "false".
Did you know that, in Deaf culture, "use of the lowercase d indicates what you are. deafness is a physical description...The use of the uppercase D indicates who you are. Deafness is an identity, a community, a culture, a mode of being"? Or that ASL is not the only sign language?
If you would like to learn more about the Deaf community, or explore the perspectives of deaf citizens with your children, here are some items from the library catalog to get you started!
Easy & Easy Reader
Enrique habla con sus manos por Benjamin Fudge [Spanish language]
Max Learns Sign Language by Adria F. Klein
Moses Goes to School by Isaac Millman
Dad and Me in the Morning by Patricia Lakin
J & YA
Wonderstruck: A Novel in Words and Pictures by Brian Selznick
A World of Knowing: A Story about Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet by Andy Russell Bowen
Of Sound Mind by Jean Ferris
Hurt Go Happy by Ginny Rorby
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller
Sign Language ABC by Lora Keller
Singing Hands by Delia Ray
General Interest
Through Deaf Eyes: A Photographic History of the American Deaf Community by Douglas Baynton, Jack Gannon, and Jean Lindquist Bergey
Shouting Won't Help: Why I - And 50 Million Other Americans - Can't Hear You by Katherine Bouton
The American Sign Language Phrase Book by Lou Fant and Barbara Bernstein Fant
No Walls of Stone: An Anthology of Literature by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Writers edited by Jill Jepson
Song Without Words: Discovering My Deafness Halfway Through Life by Gerald Shea
Seeing Voices: A Journey into the Land of the Deaf by Oliver Sacks
The Hammer [DVD]
Links
Inside Deaf Culture
National Association of the Deaf
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