Alone In The Mainstream: A Deaf Woman Remembers School

Gina Oliva

When Gina went to school in 1955, she didn't know she was different. If the teacher played the piano, Olivia didn't react. So began her journey as, she describes, a 'solitary'. It wasn't until years later when she met other Deaf students at Gallaudet University that she discovered she wasn't alone in her experiences. These collected memories add emotional weight to the conviction that students need to communicate freely and they also need peers to know they are not alone. Paperback 224 pages 2004

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