"This book serves as an insight into the reality of deaf life for people far beyond the geopolitical confines of New South Wales."
— Martin Atherton, H-Disability
"Adds considerably to the scant literature of deaf education in Australia and removes a significant historiographic blind spot in the broader study of special education...Of particular value to scholars, in addition to her work's thorough grounding in primary source material and secondary literature, are the personal interviews Malone conducted with students and former students of some of the institutions highlighted in this book."
— John Y. Jones, Truman State University, History of Education Quarterly