Book Review: Damned for Their Difference: The Cultural Construction of Deaf People as Disabled
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deaf studies
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Author: Jan Branson and Don Miller
Reviewer: Albert B. Robillard, Ph.D.
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press, 2002
Cost: Paperback $34.95
ISBN: 1-56368-121-8
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Albert B. Robillard, Professor of Sociology, University of Hawaii
Albert B. Robillard, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, University of Hawaii, has a neurological condition that has robbed him of speaking. He has his own system of lip-reading. However, despite the academic success of writing books, articles, and actively teaching, he is not immune from the constant onslaught of people who are trying to standardize, digitize, and otherwise remove the spontaneity from language.