Download or read book New Worlds for the Deaf The Story of the Pioneering Lakeside School for the Deaf in Rural Mexico written by Gwen Chan Burton and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging, compassionately-written book, Gwen Chan Burton relates the powerful and moving stories of the many deaf children and youths-unschooled and lacking communication-who found language, a free education, community and friendship at the Lakeside School for the Deaf in Jocotepec on Lake Chapala in western Mexico. The book details how the group of dedicated Mexican teachers responsible for the school's success had to adapt the specialized teaching methods of deaf education to the needs of their students in this atypical, pioneering school. International support and creative fundraising by members of the area's expatriate community enabled the school to expand and offer a boarding program for students from distant villages who would otherwise have had no specialized schooling. New Worlds for the Deaf is a unique account of the risks and rewards of creating a pioneering school that gave seriously-disadvantaged youngsters and their families access to new hope and opportunities. Heartwarming stories of individual students and their accomplishments are interwoven with an account of the school's history and with anecdotes about the customs and culture of rural Mexico that remain true to this day. All proceeds from the sale of New Worlds for the Deaf benefit the hearing aid program for children in the Lake Chapala region, a program the author runs in partnership with the local committee that supports the CAM Gallaudet Special Education Centre in Jocotepec, Jalisco.
Download or read book New Mexico School for the Deaf written by New Mexico School for the Deaf and published by . This book was released on 1987* with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The People who Spell written by Claire Louise Ramsey and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling history of the now defunct Escuela Nacional para Sordomudos (Mexican National School for the Deaf), the last students known as "ENS signers" detail their remarkable lives and heritage, and question the future of Mexico's young deaf people.
Download or read book Words Made Flesh written by R. A. R. Edwards and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the early nineteenth century, schools for the deaf appeared in the United States for the first time. These schools were committed to the use of the sign language to educate deaf students. Manual education made the growth of the deaf community possible, for it gathered deaf people together in sizable numbers for the first time in American history. It also fueled the emergence of Deaf culture, as the schools became agents of cultural transformations. Just as the Deaf community began to be recognized as a minority culture, in the 1850s, a powerful movement arose to undo it, namely oral education. Advocates of oral education, deeply influenced by the writings of public school pioneer Horace Mann, argued that deaf students should stop signing and should start speaking in the hope that the Deaf community would be abandoned, and its language and culture would vanish. In this revisionist history, Words Made Flesh explores the educational battles of the nineteenth century from both hearing and deaf points of view. It places the growth of the Deaf community at the heart of the story of deaf education and explains how the unexpected emergence of Deafness provoked the pedagogical battles that dominated the field of deaf education in the nineteenth century, and still reverberate today.
Download or read book New Mexico School for the Deaf Handbook written by New Mexico School for the Deaf and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toward Brighter Futures written by New Mexico. Task Force on the Education of the Deaf and Hard of hearing and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the First School for Deaf mutes of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Century of Progress written by Marian Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Train Go Sorry written by Leah Hager Cohen and published by HMH. This book was released on 1994-02-16 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “remarkable and insightful” look inside a New York City school for the deaf, blending memoir and history (The New York Times Book Review). Leah Hager Cohen is part of the hearing world, but grew up among the deaf community. Her Russian-born grandfather had been deaf—a fact hidden by his parents as they took him through Ellis Island—and her father served as superintendent at the Lexington School for the Deaf in Queens. Young Leah was in the minority, surrounded by deaf culture, and sometimes felt like she was missing the boat—or in the American Sign Language term, “train go sorry.” Here, the award-winning writer looks back on this experience and also explores a pivotal moment in deaf history, when scientific advances and cultural attitudes began to shift and collide—in a unique mix of journalistic reporting and personal memoir that is “a must-read” (Chicago Sun-Times). “The history of the Lexington School for the Deaf, the oldest school of its kind in the nation, comes alive with Cohen’s vivid descriptions of its students and administrators. The author, who grew up at the school, follows the real-life events of Sofia, a Russian immigrant, and James, a member of a poor family in the Bronx, as well as members of her own family both past and present who are intimately associated with the school. Cohen takes special pride in representing the views of the deaf community—which are sometimes strongly divided—in such issues as American Sign Language (ASL) vs. oralism, hearing aids vs. cochlear implants, and mainstreaming vs. special education. The author’s lively narrative includes numerous conversations translated from ASL . . . a one-of-a-kind book.” —Library Journal “Throughout the book, Cohen focuses on two students whose Russian and African American roots exemplify the school’s increasingly diverse population . . . beautifully written.” —Booklist
Download or read book A World of Knowing written by Andy Russell Bowen and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet had a sharp mind and a great determination to make a difference in the world. When Thomas met Alice Cogswell, a little girl who was deaf, he decided to go to Europe to study deaf education and became a teacher. The signs he learned developed into American Sign Language and helped his students to leave their isolation behind.
Download or read book The Wyoming School for the Deaf written by Mary Lou Jennings and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Information the New Mexico Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb Santa Fe written by New Mexico Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Mexico School for the Deaf written by Thomas Dillon and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All of Us Together written by Jeri Banks and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to avoid closing, Kinzie Elementary School in Chicago brought in fifteen classes of deaf and hard of hearing children.
Download or read book The New York School for the Deaf written by New York School for the Deaf. Fanwood Alumni Association and published by . This book was released on 1968* with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the First School for Deaf Mutes of America written by Ira H. Derby and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1885 Edition.
Download or read book History of the College for the Deaf 1857 1907 written by Edward Miner Gallaudet and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
