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Forging Deaf Education in Nineteenth-Century France Biographical Sketches of Bebian, Sicard, Massieu, and Clerc
ISBN: HB: 9781563684159, Gallaudet University Press, October 2009
148 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 photos
In 1811, deaf student Ferdinand Berthier commenced his education at the National Institute for the Deaf in Paris under its director Abbe Sicard and his teachers Auguste Bebian, Jean Massieu, and Laurent Clerc. Their tutelage eventually led Berthier t...
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£48,00
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From Integration to Inclusion A History of Special Education in the 20th Century
ISBN: HB: 9781563683657, Gallaudet University Press, September 2009
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 3 tables
Since Margret A. Winzer wrote her lamark work "The History of Special Education", much has transpired in this field, which she again has captured in a remarkable display of scholarship. Winzer's new study From Integration to Inclusion: A History of...
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£60,00
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Fair Chance in the Race of Life The Role of Gallaudet University in Deaf History
ISBN: PB: 9781563683954, Gallaudet University Press, December 2008
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 17 photos
Despite its prominence as a world cultural center and a locus of research on deaf culture, history, education, and language for more than 150 years, Gallaudet University has only infrequently been the focal point of historical study. Eminent historia...
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£26,50
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Focus on Contemporary Arabic With Online Media
ISBN: PB: 9780300224047, Yale University Press, November 2006
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.
"Focus on Contemporary Arabic" is the fifth volume in the Conversations with Native Speakers series, which strives to offer pioneering multimedia language materials to students at the intermediate and advanced levels. These programs consist of a slim...
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£40,00
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Frequency of Occurrence and Ease of Articulation of Sign Language Handshapes The Taiwanese Example
ISBN: HB: 9781563682889, Gallaudet University Press, July 2006
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In the growing body of research on sign language linguistics, one area of inquiry considers an important component of all sign languages – handshapes – and whether the use of specific kinds increase in direct relation to the ease of their formation....
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£60,00
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Far from Home Memories of World War II and Afterward
ISBN: PB: 9781563683190, Gallaudet University Press, March 2005
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, photos
"She's got no more business there than a pig has with a Bibl". That's what her father said when Mary Herring announced that she would be moving to Washington, DC, in late1942. Recently graduated from the North Carolina School for Black Deaf and Blin...
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£24,00
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From Pity to Pride Growing Up Deaf in the Old South
ISBN: HB: 9781563682704, Gallaudet University Press, June 2004
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The antebellum South's economic dependence on slavery engendered a rigid social order in which a small number of privileged white men dominated African Americans, poor whites, women, and many people with disabilities. "From Pity to Pride" examines th...
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£46,00
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Form and Meaning in Language Volume I: Papers on Semantic Roles
ISBN: PB: 9781575862866, ISBN: HB: 9781575862859, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2002
311 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The early papers collected here trace a trajectory through the work and thinking of Charles Fillmore over his long and distinguished career – reflecting his desire to make sense of the workings of language in a way that keeps in mind questions of lan...
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£21,00
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£56,00
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For "Children Who Vary from the Normal Type"
ISBN: HB: 9781563680892, Gallaudet University Press, March 2000
220 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this perceptive study of the education of disabled children, Robert Osgood describes the grown of Boston and its schools as both typical and a national leader among urban centers during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He closely exam...
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£46,00
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From Gesture to Language in Hearing and Deaf Children
ISBN: PB: 9781563680786, Gallaudet University Press, October 1998
358 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In 21 essays on communicative gesturing in the first two years of life, this vital collection demonstrates the importance of gesture in a child's transition to a linguistic system. Introductions preceding each section emphasize the parallels between...
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£36,00
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