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The Butterfly Cage

by Rachel Zemach

  • Unruly Voices
  • 2023
  • ISBN: 978-1959804529
  • 388 pages
  • WorldCat
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About the Book

In a series of short, distinctive chapters, Zemach shares her personal Deafhood journey, poignant scenes from the classroom, shocking individualized education meetings and their impact, and the larger political and historical picture surrounding Deaf education. ebook icon 
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About the Author

Rachel became Deaf at age ten, in an accident. As a teenager, she was thrilled to discover the charged, idiosyncratic Deaf world and the lavishly expressive and comprehensive, 3-D language of ASL (American Sign Language.) Later, while raising two children and running a mosaic tile business, she got a Deaf education teaching credential and began teaching a Deaf class in a public school "mainstream program" near her home. After ten years of teaching, Rachel decided to write a memoir of her experiences in order to educate others and to start a national dialogue about mainstream Deaf education.

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