Download or read book The Politics of Visual Language written by James Roots and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Visual Language is a ground-breaking study of the political socialization of children who are deaf. Debate has raged for years over how to educate the prelingually deaf - those children who cannot acquire language "normally" (that is, orally and aurally). While the battlelines have been drawn by the proponents of oralism versus manualism and their hearing supporters, two linguistic dilemmas facing D/deaf people remain constant: a conscious choice is always made for them as to the way they will be taught, and either method of language acquisition results in a form of marginalization.