Reddit reviews The Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community

It amounts to spending most of a student's day coaching them on lipreading and speaking, and denying them room for genuine academic freedom. It's called oralism and it is, in my biased opinion, very close to a human rights violation. A handful of successful students are held up as examples of its efficacy. Meanwhile people like my wife get to teach the "oral failures," as they're called, how to sign in High School, then play academic catch-up so that they can have something resembling an education. Usually this is all because of the medical influence over parents of deaf children, who are told from the moment it's discovered "Don't worry, this is just a medical deficit that we can correct with SCIENCE." $10,000-150,000 later, the kid still can't hear, what a shocker. But that doesn't stop Mom and Dad from insisting on an English-only education, because they want their snowflake to lipread and talk like a "normal" person.

http://www.amazon.com/Mask-Benevolence-Disabling-Deaf-Community/dp/1581210094

TL;DR: Hearing parents want their kid to use the same language they do, rather than learn the language their kid has access to. They are encouraged by school and medical officials who have a vested interest in misrepresenting oral and manual Deaf education.