THE SILENT BOOK - Tecno-Libro

The book tells the story of the author's mother and father as Deaf people in the .context of their lives in Victoria, their schooling in New South Wales in the 1920s .and their adult lives. She brings to the fore the rural environment that surrounded their .lives as children .and as adults in rural Australia. .Australian-irish Sign Language was introduced into Australia in the .nineteenth century through Sister Gabriel Hogan, a Dominican religious sister who was deaf herself. She was appointed to teach Deaf children, so a school was .eventually established in Waratah, NSW. As the population in Australia was .increasing, and so too the Catholic population, there was an increase in the number .of Deaf children. .Protestant based denominational schools for Deaf children had also begun .in Sydney and Melbourne, using British Sign Language. The Catholic community .was strongly committed to providing a Catholic education for its children, including .f