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It's the 1960s, in Melbourne, Australia. You are in Grade One at a large Catholic primary school, and you are the only one who is deaf. Deafness is subtle, especially when you can speak like anyone else, but you can't hide it. The cord of your new hearing aid loops out of the collar of your school shirt, and tells the world you're deaf, whether you want them to know or not. This is what faces Mike. What makes his story of schooldays and adolescence more unusual is his family. He is one of five children, of whom four are inexplicably born deaf to hearing parents. With almost no support, the...

Who is Edith Ackers? All we know is that she is deaf, and her father, Benjamin, is one of Europe's most powerful champions of oralism, the belief that deaf people can be taught to speak. Oralism is sweeping through late 19th-century Europe, threatening to overturn the lives of deaf people, and making sign language redundant. David Archer, a young English journalist, is at first convinced that oralism will bring deaf people into the hearing world. But the passion of deaf people and their defence of sign language convinces him otherwise. At a public meeting in London, Benjamin Ackers, a wealthy...