The Children of Silence (45 page)

This pivotal event in deaf history is thought to have set back the education of deaf children by about 100 years.

Linda Stratmann is a former chemist’s dispenser and civil servant who now writes full time. She lives in Walthamstow, London.

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First published in 2015

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