Historically, deaf and hard of hearing people have demonstrated various levels of competence in a multitude of professions, but they also have experienced discrimination and oppression. In five critical sections, this volume responds to the tidal wav...

Picking up where "Innovative Practices in Teaching Sign Language Interpreters" left off, this new collection presents the best new interpreter teaching techniques proven in action by the eminent contributors assembled here. In the first chapter, Denn...

"The American Sign Language Handshape Puzzle Book" features 54 different puzzles to help students learn, review, and strengthen their signing vocabulary. Inspired by the bestselling dictionary, this unique workbook offers a variety of puzzles at thre...

Now in Paperback! The Second International Symposium on Cognition, Education, and Deafness in 1989 broadened and deepened the scope of investigation initiated at the first conference held five years earlier. "Advances in Cognition, Education, and Dea...

When Gina Oliva first went to school in 1955, she didn't know that she was "different". If the kindergarten teacher played a tune on the piano to signal the next exercise, Oliva didn't react because she couldn't hear the music. So began her journey a...

This is a business Chinese textbook for advanced learners of Chinese in which contemporary economic issues in China are addressed in depth. The goal of each lesson is to help students develop their language skills in a dynamic and communicative conte...

"At Home Among Strangers" presents an engrossing portrait of the Deaf community as a complex, nationwide social network that offers unique kinship to deaf people across the country. Schein depicts in striking detail the history and culture of the Dea...

Beginning signers now can improve their recognition of the most commonly used signs with this easy-to-follow handbook. "The American Sign Language Handshape Starter" illustrates 800 of the most frequently used signs, arranging them by the 40 standard...

When, in 1968, 19-year-old Tressa Bowers took her baby daughter to an expert on deaf children, he pronounced that Alandra was "stone deaf", she most likely would never be able to talk, and she probably would not get much of an education because of he...

At one point in 1982, the Chicago School Board debated whether or not to close John H. Kinzie Elementary School due to its shrinking school-age population and its many problems typical of city schools. But an energetic new principal, James Franklin,...