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Silent Life and Silent Language The Inner Life of a Mute in an Institution for the Deaf
ISBN: PB: 9781944838294, Gallaudet University Press, August 2018
200 pp., 21.6x14 cm
"Silent Life and Silent Language" presents a fictionalized account of life at a Midwestern residential school for deaf students in the years following the Civil War. Based on the experiences of the author, who became deaf at the age of nine and enter...
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£25,00
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Managing Their Own Affairs The Australian Deaf Community in the 1920s and 1930s
ISBN: HB: 9781944838102, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 illus., 30 photos
This work describes an eventful and formative time in Australian Deaf history the interwar years of the 1920s and 1930s. During this period, Deaf people challenged the authority of the dominant welfare organizations (Deaf Societies), which were large...
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£60,00
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Shifting the Dialog, Shifting the Culture Pathways to Successful Postsecondary Outcomes for Deaf Individuals
ISBN: HB: 9781944838126, Gallaudet University Press, November 2017
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 figures, 5 illus.
In this volume, Stephanie W. Cawthon and Carrie Lou Garberoglio discuss the individual and systemic factors that both facilitate and inhibit the attainment of postsecondary education, training, and career goals for deaf individuals. Real-life example...
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My Mother Made Me Deaf Discourse and Identity in a Deaf Community
ISBN: HB: 9781563686870, Gallaudet University Press, April 2017
208 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 17 figures, 1 table
The term deaf often sparks heated debates about authority and authenticity. The concept of Deaf identity and affiliation with the DEAF-WORLD are constantly negotiated social constructions that rely heavily on the use of American Sign Language. Howeve...
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£49,00
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Hidden Treasure of Black ASL Its History and Structure
ISBN: HB + DVD: 9781563684890, Gallaudet University Press, October 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, tables, figures
People who first encounter sign language often ask if all deaf people sign the same language and are surprised to learn that there are different sign languages in different nations worldwide, as well as variations of these languages. One variation, B...
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£60,00
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Signing and Belonging in Nepal
ISBN: HB: 9781563686641, Gallaudet University Press, June 2016
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 line drawings, 3 photos
While many deaf organizations around the world have adopted an ethno-linguistic framing of deafness, the meanings and consequences of this perspective vary across cultural contexts, and relatively little scholarship exists that explores this framewor...
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£45,00
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In Our Own Hands Essays in Deaf History, 1780-1970
ISBN: PB: 9781563686603, Gallaudet University Press, May 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 photos, 4 tables
This collection of new research examines the development of deaf people's autonomy and citizenship discourses as they sought access to full citizenship rights in local and national settings. Covering the period of 1780-1970, the essays in this collec...
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£30,00
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It's a Small World International Deaf Spaces and Encounters
ISBN: HB: 9781563686528, Gallaudet University Press, December 2015
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 1 table, 11 figures
"It's a Small World" explores the fascinating and, at times, controversial concept of DEAF-SAME ("I am deaf, you are deaf, and so we are the same") and its influence on deaf spaces locally and globally. The editors and contributors focus on national...
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£52,50
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Citizenship, Politics, Difference Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Signed Language Communities
ISBN: HB: 9781563686344, Gallaudet University Press, June 2015
232 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 15 figures
Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the most linguistically, culturally, and geographically diverse regions of the world, home to more than 2,000 languages. As in the rest of the world, Deaf people live throughout the widely varying sub-Saharan communities,...
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Deaf Professionals and Designated Interpreters A New Paradigm
ISBN: PB: 9781563685675, Gallaudet University Press, September 2014
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 2 tables, 17 figures
"Deaf Professionals and Designated Interpreters: A New Paradigm" defines a new model that depends upon strong partnerships between the growing number of deaf experts and their interpreters. Editors Peter C. Hauser, Karen L. Finch, and Angela B. Hause...
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£41,50
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