At Home Among Strangers by Jerome D. Schein Many Deaf people have described the feeling of being in a Deaf environment for the first time; although among strangers, they were at home. This feeling is what has lead to the Deaf community. It is bound by a common language, experiences, and the treatment of a hostile world. Deaf does not mean deaf. Capital D Deaf is generally used to indicate members of the Deaf community, generally those who became deaf in their teens or earlier.
Schein describes the factors that cause a Deaf community, the organizations of the deaf community, the difficulties deaf people face in the hearing world, and what the Deaf community is. His descriptions of the finances of Deaf people are out date. The statistics in general are not well explained enough. When a statistic describes Deaf families, the reader should be told what a Deaf family is. Does a Deaf family mean families with one Deaf child? Does it mean a family that belongs to Deaf culture? Who are these statistics describing? In describing organizations and history of the Deaf, Schein does much better.
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