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The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 2005 10(2):193-202; doi:10.1093/deafed/eni019
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An Unhappy and Utterly Pitiable Creature? Life and Self-Images of Deaf People in the Netherlands at the Time of the Founding Fathers of Deaf Education

Agnes Tellings and Corrie Tijsseling

Institute for Philosophy and History of Education, Radboud University

This article describes how young deaf people in the Netherlands between 1809 and 1828 made the transition from living in a school for the Deaf,1 a rather protected community with mostly deaf people and with hearing people who could understand them rather well, to a life in hearing society with mostly hearing people who knew little about deafness. How did they manage to live in that hearing society? The article describes how these deaf people viewed themselves as Deaf persons in a hearing society. The description is based on an analysis of 73 letters written by 35 ex-pupils to the founder of their school, Reverend H. D. Guyot. As it turns out, these deaf ex-pupils managed to live in hearing society remarkably well.

1. Because we consider Deaf people to belong to a minority group with its own language and culture, in those cases we will capitalize the word deaf. When we explicitly refer to physical deafness only, we will use lowercase.

Correspondence should be sent to A. Tellings, Institute for Philosophy and History of Education, Radboud University, POSTBUS 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, the Netherlands (e-mail: a.tellings{at}ru.nl).

Received August 23, 2004; revised September 28, 2004; accepted September 29, 2004


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