Fact Based Articles

The Deaf are foreigners in their own country
This is from a news article in the Independent in September 1989. It had followed soon after the Deaf President Now! campaign at Gallaudet in...
Pictures in the Mind
Joyeux Noël! Pictures in the Mind is a documentary made in 1987 based on Harlan Lane’s ground-breaking book When the Mind Hears – a volume...
I am/am not angry. An ‘1880 That’ irony
This new image (inspired by ‘1880 That’ and intended as a header for this website) which is a brick wall featuring the words ‘I am...
From Jane Eyre to false truths – an experience of reality
I often wondered about Jane Eyre – the heroine in the TV/films of Charlotte Bronte’s famous novel. Why did Charlotte Bronte write this story? Was...
A little known 1950s oralist experiment and its fall-out
This is about the post-war oralist programme aimed at rearing fully conversant hearing speakers out of Deaf children. How did this special experimental oralist programme...