“In fact, an alarming percentage of deaf children graduate high school with a third-grade reading ability.” — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
“Tell Doris Jean I figure it’s about time I learned that sign language,” — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, very few deaf people actually use sign language in their dreams.” — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
“One of the criticisms leveled at deaf people is that they’re rigid thinkers. For” — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
“For the first time, it hit me that my mother and father were deaf.” — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
“From the first two-hour class on, I had not said a word. I wanted them to know a little bit of what… — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
“In most of us there is a tiny voice we consult as part of our thought processes. Deaf people literally don’t hear… — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
“But thinking back on all those times, I had this odd, inescapable feeling that society thought it was some kind of sin… — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
“I told him as much as I was allowed to tell, but the Code of Ethics forbids evaluating a person’s signing skills… — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
“What’s interesting about the studies is that prelingually deaf people (people such as my parents, who were born deaf or who lost… — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
“I was the only student she’d taught who’d actually known any deaf people. Most of the students in my courses were there… — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
“From 1963 through 1965, a nationwide epidemic of rubella—German measles—caused thousands of women to deliver babies who were handicapped in some way:” — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share
“there are signs that are parodies of actual objects and that retain a cleverness even for deaf people. Indeed, these signs are to sight… — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share
“I was the only student she’d taught who’d actually known any deaf people. Most of the students in my courses were there because they’d… — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share
“It was like the old joke: the operation was a success but the patient died. Theories and goals of education don’t matter a whit… — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share
“One story was about a deaf man who was driving in the country, when safety bars were lowered across the road at a railroad… — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share
“Mom turned to me, puzzled. In sign language, she asked, “What was Grandpa saying in the kitchen?” My heart froze.” — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share
“By the time we got back to his house, Grandpa couldn’t reproduce the two signs he’d learned, but he hurried inside to describe to… — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share
“And then she made a sign that sent a chill up my spine. It was a slang sign meaning “I’m deaf,” but it’s crudely… — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share
“Like virtually all schools for the deaf at that time, the Indiana State School emphasized oral skills: speaking and lipreading.” — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share
“Over the centuries people have blamed everything from eating a green chestnut to being cursed by a gypsy. Others have cited being frightened by… — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share
“to leave a child without language for a moment longer than is absolutely necessary seems cruel to me.” — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share
“This work was throwing me into the intimate functioning of people’s lives.” — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share
