Author: Harlan L. Lane
Publisher: Dawnsign Press
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Experience life as it is in the U.S. for those who cannot hear.
Author: Harlan Lane
Publisher: Dawnsign Press
ISBN: 9780915035632
Category : Deaf
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Experience life as it is in the U.S. for those who cannot hear.
Author: Leah Hager Cohen
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679761659
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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A stunning work of journalism and memoir that explores the intimate truths of the silent but articulate world of the deaf. In American Sign Language, "train go sorry" means "missing the boat." Leah Hager Cohen uses the phrase as shorthand for the myriad missed connections between the deaf and the hearing. As she ushers readers into New York's Lexington School for the Deaf, Cohen (whose grandfather was deaf and whose father was the school's superintendent) she also forges new connections.
Author: Oliver Sacks
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307365751
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect — a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well. Seeing Voices is, as Studs Terkel has written, "an exquisite, as well as revelatory, work."
Author: Roy K. Holcomb
Publisher: Dawnsign Press
ISBN: 9781581211498
Category : Deaf
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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4th rev. ed. of the original: Hazards of deafness.
Author: Harlan L. Lane
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780679736141
Category : Deaf
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A look at the gulf that separates the deaf minority from the hearing world, this book sheds light on the mistreatment of the deaf community by a hearing establishment that resists understanding and awareness. Critically acclaimed as a breakthrough when it was first published in 1992, this new edition includes information on the science and ethics of childhood cochlear implants. An indictment of the ways in which experts in the scientific, medical, and educational establishment purport to serve the deaf, The Mask of Benevolence describes how they, in fact, do them great harm.
Author: Paddy Ladd
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1847696899
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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This book presents a ‘Traveller’s Guide’ to Deaf Culture, starting from the premise that Deaf cultures have an important contribution to make to other academic disciplines, and human lives in general. Within and outside Deaf communities, there is a need for an account of the new concept of Deaf culture, which enables readers to assess its place alongside work on other minority cultures and multilingual discourses. The book aims to assess the concepts of culture, on their own terms and in their many guises and to apply these to Deaf communities. The author illustrates the pitfalls which have been created for those communities by the medical concept of ‘deafness’ and contrasts this with his new concept of “Deafhood”, a process by which every Deaf child, family and adult implicitly explains their existence in the world to themselves and each other.
Author: Harlan Lane
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307874710
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 561
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The authoritative statement on the deaf, their education, and their struggle against prejudice.
Author: Carol PADDEN
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674041755
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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"Inside Deaf Culture relates deaf people's search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self-description as a flourishing culture. Padden and Humphries show how the nineteenth-century schools for the deaf, with their denigration of sign language and their insistence on oralist teaching, shaped the lives of deaf people for generations to come. They describe how deaf culture and art thrived in mid-twentieth century deaf clubs and deaf theatre, and profile controversial contemporary technologies." Cf. Publisher's description.
Author: Thomas S. Spradley
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
ISBN: 9780930323110
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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The parents of a child born without hearing describe their efforts to reach across the barrier of silence to teach their daughter to speak and enjoy a normal life.