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Title: A Child Sacrificed to the Deaf Culture by Tom Bertling ISBN: 0-9637813-4-0 Publisher: Kodiak Media Group Pub. Date: April, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2.88 (8 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Helpful!
Comment: Enjoyed this helpful book. I was previously confused about deafness education and deafness schools until I read this book. Deafness schools are not for all. This book explains why. Some deafness people are angry about this book but we cannot keep hiding facts from everybody, especially parents of young kids.

Rating: 5
Summary: help for parents of hearing impaired children
Comment: I wish we knew of this book when our hearing impaired child was younger to better understand these deafness controversies. I recommend Sacrificed Child to parents as a must read and to share with other parents. Know more before you send your child away.

Rating: 1
Summary: A Childish Diatribe Against the Deaf Community
Comment: I came to read this book as a student of American Sign Language (ASL). I wanted to see the negative side of the Deaf community. I did not find it here.

This book is filled with inconsistency and irrational hatred of the Deaf community. I expected a reasoned critique, but all I found was immature and poorly thought out backstabbing of a community.

Like other reviewers I found gapping lapses of logic. Beyond the claims of bigotry and sexism in the Deaf community (I can find all of this in any public school or PTA meeting), Bertling picks and chooses his assessment of the Deaf community to fit his needs. On page 35 he derides the Deaf community for attempting to get a Deaf superintendent for the first time at his school (an unnamed deaf residential school) and then on page 37 he claims that the Deaf community is resistant to change! It seems he only counts changes that reflect his dislike of Deaf people in positions of power.

And his take on ASL betrays bigotry and ignorance. He claims that deafness has the tragic result of "difficulty [in] obtaining a language" (pg 31). He seems to ignore the fact that ASL is a language. This is either a mistake, or just another part of his puzzling attempt to dismantle the progress in Deaf education in the past 30 years.

The fact that the book is only 108 pages long comes as a relief. It would be difficult to read more of this irrational dismissal of a cultural community.