Orchid of the Bayou: A Deaf Woman Faces BlindnessIn graduating from Gallaudet University, finding a job in Washington, D.C., and starting a family with her college sweetheart, Kitty Fischer tacitly abandoned the Louisiana Cajun culture that had exposed her to little more than prejudice and misery as a child. Upon discovering that she suffered from Usher syndrome (a genetic condition that causes both deafness and blindness), however, Fischer began an unlikely journey toward reclaiming her heritage. She and Cathryn Carroll tell the story of her heroic struggle and cultural odyssey in Orchid of the Bayou: A Deaf Woman Faces Blindness. |
Contents
Devil Child | 1 |
A School for Kitty | 12 |
I Dont Think Shes Retarded | 22 |
Seasoned Student | 30 |
Home and School Ever the Twain | 48 |
Mama | 66 |
Life After Mama | 78 |
Two Revolutions My School My Soul | 88 |
Gallaudet McDonalds In Thailand | 141 |
The Race to Who We Are | 154 |
Summer of67 | 165 |
An End to All That | 180 |
he Reentry of a Coed | 192 |
Kitty and Lance An Item | 204 |
why Me? | 217 |
YesI have Usher Syndrome | 228 |
At Home At School | 102 |
Jeanette and David | 114 |
You Should Be Proud | 127 |
Catherine Acadian and Cajun | 234 |
0n with the Party | 245 |