In the 1930s and '40s, the husband-and-wife team of Fritz and Grace Heider conducted educational research at the Clarke School for the Deaf in Massachusetts. Although schools for the deaf had been ...

In my many years of reading and writing about disability and chronic illness, my preference leans toward books that look outward, rather than inward, in their approach to truth-telling. The ...

Helen Keller opens her 1903 autobiography with a confession. “It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life,” the deafblind author admits. She wants to avoid imposing a sense ...