Author: National Association of the DeafPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Proceedings of the ... Convention of the National Association of the Deaf
Author: National Association of the DeafPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Proceedings of the ... Convention of the National Association ... of the Deaf ...
Author: National Association of the DeafPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deaf
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Illusions of Equality
Author: Robert M. BuchananPublisher: Gallaudet University Press
ISBN: 9781563680847
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
"The residential schools for deaf students established in the nineteenth century favored a bilingual approach to education that stressed the use of American Sign Language while also recognizing the value of learning English. But the success of this system was disrupted by the rise of oralism, with its commitment to teaching deaf children speech and its ban of sign language. Buchanan depicts the subsequent ramifications in sobering terms: most deaf students left school with limited educations and abilities that qualified them for only marginal jobs. He also describes the insistence of the male hierarchy in the deaf community on defending the tactics of individual responsibility through the end of World War II, a policy that continually failed to earn job security for Deaf workers."--BOOK JACKET.
Report
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
New Serial Titles
Author: Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: MassachusettsForbidden Signs
Author: Douglas C. BayntonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226039641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people. The ensuing debate over sign language invoked such fundamental questions as what distinguished Americans from non-Americans, civilized people from "savages," humans from animals, men from women, the natural from the unnatural, and the normal from the abnormal. An advocate of the return to sign language, Baynton found that although the grounds of the debate have shifted, educators still base decisions on many of the same metaphors and images that led to the misguided efforts to eradicate sign language. "Baynton's brilliant and detailed history, Forbidden Signs, reminds us that debates over the use of dialects or languages are really the linguistic tip of a mostly submerged argument about power, social control, nationalism, who has the right to speak and who has the right to control modes of speech."—Lennard J. Davis, The Nation "Forbidden Signs is replete with good things."—Hugh Kenner, New York Times Book Review
The Deaf
Author: Harry BestPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Deaf" (Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States) by Harry Best. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
A Place of Their Own
Author: John V. Van ClevePublisher: Gallaudet University Press
ISBN: 9780930323493
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Using original sources, this unique book focuses on the Deaf community during the 19th century. Largely through schools for the deaf, deaf people began to develop a common language and a sense of community. A Place of Their Own brings the perspective of history to bear on the reality of deafness and provides fresh and important insight into the lives of deaf Americans.
Author: Harry Best