A journey into the deaf-world
by Lane, Harlan L., Hoffmeister, Robert, Bahan, Benjamin J.
A journey into the deaf-world
by Lane, Harlan L., Hoffmeister, Robert, Bahan, Benjamin J.
A new language minority has come to the fore in America and around the world. It is the tight-knit society - some million strong in the United States - that calls itself, in American Sign Language, the Deaf-World. It has a history, a flourishing culture, and a political agenda. …
A journey into the deaf-world
by Lane, Harlan L., Hoffmeister, Robert, Bahan, Benjamin J.
A journey into the deaf-world
by Lane, Harlan L., Hoffmeister, Robert, Bahan, Benjamin J.
A journey into the deaf-world
by Lane, Harlan L., Hoffmeister, Robert, Bahan, Benjamin J.
Looks at the world of the deaf in America and discusses deaf culture, the education of deaf children, useful technology, and the integration of deaf people into the society at large.
This volume offers the authors' insights into the existence and makeup of the Deaf world, the community whose natural language, American Sign Language in the United States, is manual and visual. Bringing the latest social and cultural findings and theories into focus, the author…
Seaworthy construction : theoretical underpinnings of bilingual deaf education. Two centuries of deaf education and deaf agency in the United States / Brian H. Greenwald ; Sign language acquisition in context / Jenny L. Singleton and Richard P. Meier ; Iconicity : a threat to AS…