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Harlan L. Lane (1936–2019)

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Harlan Lane was born in Brooklyn on August 19, 1936. After receiving both a B.A. and an M.A. from Columbia University in 1958, he went on to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1960 and, later, a second doctoral degree from the Sorbonne in 1973. Lane began his teaching career as a professor mehr anzeigen of psychology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. While there, he also founded and directed the Center for Research on Language and Language Behavior. From 1969 to 1973, Lane taught linguistics at the Sorbonne in Paris, while completing his doctoral degree there. Upon returning to the United States, he taught for a year at the University of California, San Diego, and then moved to Northeastern University, in Boston, where he is a professor of psychology. He has also served as the department's chair and founded the Center for Research in Hearing, Speech, and Language. Lane has written several books about deafness. He received Harvard's Thomas J. Wilson Award for The Wild Boy of Aveyron: A History of the Education of Retarded, Deaf and Hearing Children. Another book, When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deaf, received the Book Award from the President's Commission on the Handicapped in 1986. Lane was also the recipient of distinguished service awards from both the Massachusetts State Association of the Deaf and the National Association of the Deaf in 1987. Other titles include The Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community and A Journey into the Deaf World. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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I read this book as part of an ASL class in college. First published in 1992 (and therefore I'm sure dated in its approach to the issues it tackles), it is meticulously researched, well organized, logical, and passionate in its defense of ASL as an oppressed language minority.

One could certainly argue that Dr. Lane short-changes his opponents by not really addressing their arguments on the benefits of mainstreaming Deaf children, but the purpose of this book is not to present both sides of the issues. The purpose is to demonstrate the oppression of the Deaf language and therefore their culture. Dr. Lane's position is that the Deaf child is a minority, not an invalid, and that the tendency of hearing parents to see mainstreaming as the only option is a dangerous mistake. If interested in Deaf studies, you'll find much to mull over from the text of this book.… (mehr)
 
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AmandaGStevens | Mar 2, 2019 |
This is a very comprehensive introduction to the Deaf World. I really liked it because it looked not only at the Deaf experience in the United States but also in countries around the world. It makes this book much more inclusive than others. It talks about history and policy issues related to being Deaf.
 
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OpheliaAwakens | Feb 1, 2009 |
Possible spoiler alert:

Lane and Pillard are ultra excited when they hear about a possible feral child and immediately pull together a surprising amount of funding (given that they knew just about nothing, etc. I'm surprised they got anything) and fly to Burundi. This book tells us everything about that trip- including what meals they ate in French restaurants on the way. Riveting details- or, well, not. I stuck with them until they finally found the child, who was fairly obviously autistic, though they did a lot of tests to confirm. On the plus side, however, I learned a bit of history about a country I'd hardly heard of before and broadened my horizons in that way.… (mehr)
 
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