All sociocultural groups offer possible solutions to the dilemma that a deaf child presents to the larger group,
write Claire Ramsey and Jose Antonio Noriega in their essay, Ninos Milagrizados: Language Attitudes, Deaf Education, and Miracle Cures in Mexico. In this case, Ramsey and Noriega analyze cultural attempts to unify deaf children with the rest of the community. Other contributors report similar phenomena in deaf communities in New Zealand, Nicaragua, and Spain, paying particular attention to how society’s view of deaf people affects how deaf people view themselves.