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“Deaf in America” book mainly focused on Deaf culture of today and comparing it to the culture of the past. The stories in the book describes what kind of struggles deaf people had to go through in order to get to where they are today. The book, “Deaf in America”, were written by two authors, Carol Padden and Tom Humphries, both in which are deaf. Padden and Humphries were able to collect factors, stories, and experiences of other deaf people within America and compiled them into one book describing their perspective of the world of the hearing. Padden and Humphries wanted to show how deaf culture was different from hearing culture. The reader of the book gets a chance to travel through the history to those who have experienced the deaf world first handed. The book also presented a positive impact to the readers by letting the readers know in the introduction that the authors writing the book were deaf and would indicate that the experience were real and true. Padden and Humphries …show more content…

Padden and Humphries did gather stories and good examples from other people childhood and whether person could hear or deaf, they learned to adjust in this world. The first chapter of the book describes how someone can be deaf but not Deaf. They show a relationship between Deaf child and a hearing person. “Vicki believes that her friend Michael is Deaf.”(Padden and Humphries, 1988, p. 13) this quote is a good example of hearing child who could communicate and sign with another Deaf child. According to the book, this is give us a good point of view of people who can hear and sign. The authors also talked about hearing children who been born in Deaf family. Those kids have no idea that they can hear until five or six years old. They think of themselves as a Deaf due to the way they have been raised and

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