The Invisible College Jeff Wheeler by Jeff Wheeler 9781662521874, 1662521871, B0CS4WMYB7 instant download after payment.

the inspiration for a story may have come from or other tidbits that I

think may interest my readers. For The Invisible College, I thought

readers would be better served if I opened with my reasoning for

certain details you’ll find in this book, especially since one of the

characters is deaf.

I’m inspired by history, settings, and events that are very different

from our own.

Writing from the point of view of a deaf character was especially

challenging for me since I had to use my imagination and research to

try to bridge the gap of understanding. Societies throughout history

have regularly mistreated individuals who are considered different

from what may be considered “normal.” The world of The Invisible

College is no different and exposes some of the injustices that can and

often still do persist despite more modern research and methods.

For example, in this book deaf children are considered pariahs and

unwelcome in Society. Those in power make false and injurious

assumptions about their abilities and potential. Unrealistic expectations

are also contrived, such as lipreading and vocalizing being preferable to

other forms of communication, like sign language. In reality, lipreading

and speaking might prove inaccessible for some individuals born

without hearing.

Such themes are in this book, but I wanted to point out to my

readers that while I write about many topics and do a lot of research in

my world-building, it doesn’t reflect my personal beliefs or attitudes. I

wanted to state this because authors have to make hard choices about

what goes into a book and what gets left out, and some of these choices

may be viewed as perpetuating debunked ideas. It’s never my intent to

injure or offend my readers. The teaching methods in the book were

typical of the time it is based on—New England in the 1870s. Back

then, many deaf children were sent to asylums to endure lives of

misery because it was supposed,