The People Who Spell: The Last Students from the Mexican National School for the Deaf

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GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY PRESS WASHINGTON, DC The People Who Spell  T H E L A S T S T U D E N T S F R O M T H E M E X I C A N N AT I O N A L S C H O O L F O R T H E D E A F Claire L. Ramsey Gallaudet University Press Washington, DC 20002© 2011 by Gallaudet University All rights reserved. Published 2011 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ramsey, Claire L. (Claire Louise) The people who spell: the last students from the Mexican National School for the Deaf / Claire L. Ramsey. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-56368-505-7 (hardcover: alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-56368-505-1 (hardcover: alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-1-56368-506-4 (e-book: alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-56368-506-X (e-book: alk. paper) 1. Deaf—Education—Mexico. 2. Escuela Nacional para Sordomudos (Mexico) I.Title. HV2583.R36 2011 371.91’20972—dc23 2011032329 ∞ 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. The past is never dead. It’s not even past. —William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun, 1951 The past isn’t dead and buried. In fact, it isn’t even past. —Senator Barack Obama paraphrasing Faulkner, A More Perfect Union, March 18, 2008 ...