Deaf Education in America: Voices of Children from Inclusion Settings

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Gallaudet University Press Washington, D.C. 20002 http://gupress.gallaudet.edu© 2007 by Gallaudet University Press All rights reserved. Published 2007 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cerney, Janet Deaf education in America: voices of children from inclusion settings / Janet Cerney. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN: 978-1-56368-362-6 (alk. paper) 1. Deaf children—Education—United States. 2. Inclusive education—United States. 3. Deaf students—United States. I. Title. HV2551.C38 2007 371.91’20973—dc22 2007023058 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1984. To my three precious children Anna, Tasha, and Alosha, who gave me the passion to understand your deaf child’s view of deaf education in America. That all men are alike is exactly what society would like to hear. It considers actual or imagined differences as stigmas indicating that not enough has yet been done; that something has still been left outside its machinery, not quite determined by its totality. —Adorno, 1974 ...