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    Pictures in the Mind

    December 25, 2025December 25, 2025

    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 of almost 700 pages (US editions) covering the comprehensive history…

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  • 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...

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