A cultural model of deafness is offered as an alternative to more popular pathological models. The cultural model attempts to describe the experiences of a deaf child as enculturation into a deaf world- to see the world from the deaf child's point of view. The implications of this view on social, cognitive, and linguistic development are explored through the use of rich description of one deaf child who is being raised in a multilingual, multicultural environment.
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