Environment and the Deaf Child is based on material compiled for a doctoral dissertation. The stated purpose of the study is to improve our understanding of the maladjustment of deaf children. The author seeks to determine whether environmental factors play a more decisive role in the adjustive process than do organic or hereditary conditions. To this end the author has included a review of the literature concerning the various views of this problem. Numerous quotations are used and, since they are out of context, it is a little difficult for the reader to be certain of the original author's intent for a given statement.