When the Mind Hears

The authoritative statement on the deaf, their education, and their struggle against prejudice."Impassioned, polemical...[a work of] immnense scholarship, powers of historical reconstruction, and deep empathy for the world of...the deaf."--Oliver Sacks,Harlan Lane is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at Northeastern University and has received the International Social Merit Award of the World Federation of the Deaf, among numerous other honors. An internationally recognized advocate for the Deaf, the author or editor of nine books on Deaf history, language, and culture, Lane lives in Boston, Massachusetts.