Batson, Trenton W., and Eugene Bergman, eds. The Deaf Experience: An Anthology of Literature by and about the Deaf. South Waterford, ME: MerriamEddy, 1976. Gives an overview of works and authors concerned with the hearing impaired.

Grant, Brian, ed. The Quiet Ear: Deafness in Literature. London: Faber and Faber, 1988. Anthology that provides an overview of works and writers concerned with the deaf.

Lamson, Mary Swift. Life and Education of Laura Dewey Bridgman. New York: Arno, 1975. Reprint of a classic 1878 edition that recounts the efforts of nineteenth-century educators to develop the communication skills of a blind and deaf woman.

Lane, Harlan. The Wild Boy of Aveyron.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. Recounts French efforts in the nineteenth century to educate a boy found roaming in the woods who exhibited no knowledge of human language or culture. The volume also reviews the philosophical, medical, and pedagogical debates that...