A Deaf Adult Speaks Out (review)

Reviews using the cleverly drawn sequence cards related to that lesson. The children are encouraged to find as many solutions as possible for each story problem. Followup activities are suggested after each unit but these are very repetitious. A diversity in activities such as a "sharing chart" for the unit on Personal Ethics, children's experience stories about similar problems in the lesson, poetry about various values to be illustrated and/or role played, would make the lessons more interesting. Movies and filmstrips on values from Captioned Films for the Deaf would be useful as culminating activities. The five units covered in this kit are: Personal Ethics, Manners, Prejudice, Responsibility, and Respect. Margaret W. Denton Waverley Elementary Frederick, Maryland A Deaf Adult Speaks Out, Leo M. Jacobs, M.A., 145 pp., $4.80, Gallaudet College Press, Seventh arid Florida Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002, 1974. In the author's words, the book is "a chronicle of deafness as seen through the eyes of a deaf adult" who grew up without the benefits of normal hearing or having developed understandable speech. These eyes have seen both triumphs over handicaps and injustices inflicted upon deaf people. As such a chronicle the book is a noteworthy contribution to the growing body of knowledge about various aspects of deafness. Sprinkled throughout the 11 chapters that comprise the book are passages which contain strong statements bordering on the vitriolic concerning injustices and prejudices that the author perceives as having been perpetuated by certain organizations and individuals. Undoubtedly , certain readers will recoil at the intensity of the author's feelings which are shared by many of his colleagues. He is equally unstinting in paying tribute to those organizations and individuals who have championed the cause of deafness. Such positive contributions are well documented by the author. The chapters on The Deaf Adult and The Adult Deaf Community are neat packages of information that many graduate students will find useful in their studies. The selections of articles portraying deafness which are included in the appendix are judicious ones. Whether or not the reader shares the author's points of view, he should be reminded that a "bona fide" deaf adult has spoken out! Victor H. Galloway, Ed. D. The Model Secondary School for the Deaf Gallaudet College Washington, DC 20002 The Right to an Education Mandate, edited by Richard A. Johnson, Jerry C. Gross, and Richard F. Weatherman, 242 pp., $3.95, Audio Visual Library Service, University of Minnesota, 3300 University Ave., SE Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414, 1974. This publication by the University of Minnesota contains the proceedings of their Third Annual Invitational Special Education Leadership Conference. It is in four parts, with part one dealing with Critical Issues. Part two has to do with Legislation and Litigation with one article concerned with Recent Development in the Courts by Allen Abeson, and the other with Recent Legislative Developments by Fred Weintraub, both from the staff of the Council for Exceptional Children. The third section deals with Implications for Programs, and the fourth section with Programs and Practices. A report in the Programs and Practices section by Dr. Winifred H. Northcott and Jayne V. Nelson, has to do with a project jointly sponsored by the University of Minnesota, the Minnesota State Department of Education, and a public school district which is concerned with A Family Oriented Infant/Preschool Program for Hearing Impaired Children, 0-4, and Their Parents. This Conference was held in November 1973, and is a good representation of the thinking of the leaders in special education on the various aspects of the Right to an Education philosophy. As is true with any collection of papers presented at a conference, there are some presentations which are perhaps timeless, while many of the others will become outdated when other conferences are held and their reports published. Richard G. Brill, Ed.D. California School for the Deaf Riverside, California 92506 A.A.D. I February 1980 ...