I suspect there aren't many academic sources detailing the discrimination faced by deaf people, though there might be compilations of first-hand accounts. The d

I suspect there aren't many academic sources detailing the discrimination faced by deaf people, though there might be compilations of first-hand accounts. The deaf community is fairly insular. My partner's father was born in India as the eldest of several boys. Despite his family being well-off, he was treated as a burden and most of his family refused to learn IPSL to be able to communicate with him. His mother and father weren't supportive of his personal, academic, or business pursuits; his brothers all went to prestigious foreign universities and became highly educated. He made his own way to Canada where he learned his 4th and 5th languages, ASL and English, and started a family with a deaf girl his family had arranged a marriage to. The man has gumption, but was never really able to escaped the poverty line.