Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World

Leah Hager Cohen

This book is a beautifully written work. The author grew up in a New York school for deaf, her grandparents were Deaf and her father was the school's superintendent

The main theme the book is the argument about ‘mainstreaming’ versus Deaf culture. Should deaf children be assimilated into the hearing world, or be brought up in the world of Deaf people? She argues that it is essential for deaf children to have a rich linguistic culture, and the only way to get that is in a signing world. In American Sign Language, ‘train go sorry’ means 'missing the boat.' Leah Hager Cohen uses the phrase as shorthand for the many missed connections between deaf and hearing people. Paperback Reprinted 2006

£9.95