Download or read book The Deaf Community in America written by Melvia M. Nomeland and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deaf community in the West has endured radical changes in the past centuries. This work of history tracks the changes both in the education of and the social world of deaf people through the years. Topics include attitudes toward the deaf in Europe and America and the evolution of communication and language. Of particular interest is the way in which deafness has been increasingly humanized, rather than medicalized or pathologized, as it was in the past. Successful contributions to the deaf and non-deaf world by deaf individuals are also highlighted. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Download or read book Introduction to American Deaf Culture written by Thomas K. Holcomb and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to American Deaf Culture provides a fresh perspective on what it means to be Deaf in contemporary hearing society. The book offers an overview of Deaf art, literature, history, and humor, and touches on political, social and cultural themes.
Download or read book A Journey Into the Deaf world written by Harlan L. Lane and published by Dawnsign Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience life as it is in the U.S. for those who cannot hear.
Download or read book Deaf Sport written by David Alan Stewart and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deaf Sport describes the full ramifications of athletics for Deaf people, from the meaning of individual participation to the cultural bonding resulting from their organization. Deaf Sport profiles noted deaf sports figures and the differences particular to Deaf sports, such as the use of sign language for score keeping, officiating, and other communication. This important book analyzes the governing and business aspects of Deaf sport, both local deaf groups and the American Athletic Association of the Deaf and the World Games for the Deaf. It shows the positive psychological and educational impact of Deaf sport, and how it serves to socialize further the geographically dispersed members of the Deaf community.
Download or read book Sign Language and the Deaf Community written by Charlotte Baker and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Deaf House written by Joanne Weber and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joanne Weber uses a fable of a heroic quest to tell the story of her struggle as a deaf person to uncover her true self. Combining the narrative tools of a novelist with those of a documentarian, Weber effectively provides the reader with rare insight and profound truths about the lives of the deaf.
Download or read book Educating the Deaf written by Donald F. Moores and published by Houghton Mifflin College Division. This book was released on 2001 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educating the Deaf is the authoritative, comprehensive standard-bearer in its market, offering balanced coverage of hotly contested issues, such as language acquisition vs. manual communication. The text compiles all the major home, school, and community issues that affect the education of the deaf.
Download or read book The Deaf History Reader written by John V. Van Cleve and published by Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Stu. This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents an assembly of essays that together offer a remarkably vivid depiction of the varied Deaf experience in America.
Download or read book The Deaf Way written by Carol Erting and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected papers from the conference held in Washington DC, July 9-14, 1989.
Download or read book The Deaf Community in America written by Melvia M. Nomeland and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deaf community in the West has endured radical changes in the past centuries. This work of history tracks the changes both in the education of and the social world of deaf people through the years. Topics include attitudes toward the deaf in Europe and America and the evolution of communication and language. Of particular interest is the way in which deafness has been increasingly humanized, rather than medicalized or pathologized, as it was in the past. Successful contributions to the deaf and non-deaf world by deaf individuals are also highlighted. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Download or read book When the Mind Hears written by Harlan Lane and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative statement on the deaf, their education, and their struggle against prejudice.
Download or read book The Deaf written by Harry Best and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Deaf" by Harry Best. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book Captioned Films for the Deaf written by United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Annals of the Deaf written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with Sept. 1955 issues, includes lists of doctors' dissertations and masters' theses on the education of the deaf.
Download or read book History of Christ Church of the Deaf written by Leo Yates, Jr. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-06-10 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a church history book about a Deaf faith community within the United Methodist tradition. The church history spans the life of the church from 1895 - 2009. Christ Church of the Deaf is a Deaf church within the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church. It includes the inception of the Deaf congregation, the early integration of Christ Church the Deaf and the Black Whatcoat Mission (the first African American Deaf church), the church's outreach ministries and missions, a history of its pastors, and how it grew into a multi-cultural and vibrant Deaf congregation residing in Baltimore, Maryland.
Download or read book Preparation of Teachers of the Deaf written by United States. Education Office and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
