In this issue

In thisIssue The first article fittingly greets the new era that began as our March issue was being put inthe mail. Harlan Lane's scathing indictment of the paternalistic treatment of deaf persons was scheduled as alecture to be given at Gallaudet University inMarch. When he arrived at the campus, however, the distinguished incumbent of the Powrie Doctor Chair found the gates barricaded and the Deaf protest against Board paternalism in its first stages. The lecture could not be given, but we are delighted to open these pages to Professor Lane, pages that have been open to arguments against paternalism since our first issue. [See Harry Markowicz, "Some Sciolinguistic Considerations of American Sign Language,- SLS 1(1972), 15-41.1 It is not surprising, perhaps, that the daughter of the deaf couple in Joan Woodward's novel should be popularly supposed the typical product of deaf parents' upbringing. Acharacter inan absorbing work of fiction often has a firmer hold on the popular mind than living persons described by scientific observers. We have inthis issue, however, acase study of a hearing child of deaf parents, by John Bonvillian and colleagues, it tells what actually happened ina deaf family, and will surprise anyone who thinks that deaf parents must handicap ahearing child acquiring speech and literacy. Addendum David Armstrong, the author of "Some Notes on ASL as aForeign Language" in the June Issue, points out that reference should have been made, on page 256 of 5L5 59, to apaper by Markowicz and Woodward: "Language and the Maintenance of Ethnic boundaries inthe Deaf Communi ty." InHow You Gonna Get to Heaven if You Can't Talk with Jesus J. Woodward, ed. (Silver Spring, MD: T.J. Publishers). The editor regrets and takes full responsibility for this oversight. ...