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Deaf Empowerment Emergence, Struggle, and Rhetoric
ISBN: PB: 9781563685880, Gallaudet University Press, February 2013
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Employing the methodology successfully used to explore other social movements in America, this meticulous study examines the rhetorical foundation that motivated Deaf people to work for social change during the past two centuries. In clear, concise p...
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£37,50
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Primary Movement in Sign Languages A Study of Six Languages
ISBN: HB: 9781563684913, Gallaudet University Press, May 2011
222 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, tables, figures, photos
Is it possible to identify sign languages by their prosody, that is, the rhythm and stress of sign production, and then determine if they are related to each other or other sign languages? If so, reasoned authors Donna Jo Napoli, Mark Mai, and Nichol...
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£52,50
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Handy Stories to Read and Sign
ISBN: PB: 9781563684074, Gallaudet University Press, September 2009
56 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 39 full colour illus.
"Handy Stories to Read and Sign" takes a bilingual, fun approach to help beginning readers, deaf and hearing, improve their comprehension of both English and American Sign Language (ASL). Charmingly illustrated, the five stories presented here increa...
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£15,00
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Testing Deaf Students in an Age of Accountability
ISBN: HB: 9781563683923, Gallaudet University Press, October 2008
248 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 22 tables, 10 figures
Despite the idealism represented by the No Child Left Behind law's mandate for accountability in education, deaf students historically and on average have performed far below grade level on standardized tests. To resolve this contradiction in deaf ed...
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£52,00
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Neither-Nor A Young Australian's Experience with Deafness
ISBN: PB: 9781563683503, Gallaudet University Press, April 2007
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 photos
Born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1974, Paul Jacobs lost his mother when he was three months old. When he was five, he lost most of his hearing. These two defining events formed the core of his being. He spent the first two decades of his life "coming...
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£22,50
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Literacy and Deaf People Cultural and Contextual Perspectives
ISBN: HB: 9781563682711, Gallaudet University Press, July 2004
212 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This compelling collection advocates for an alternative view of deaf people's literacy, one that emphasizes recent shifts in Deaf cultural identity rather than a student's past educational context as determined by the dominant hearing society. Divide...
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£45,00
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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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No Walls of Stone An Anthology of Literature by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Writers
ISBN: HB: 9781563680199, Gallaudet University Press, October 1992
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 photos
They also will discover emotional insights capable of enhancing their own lives: Finding new truths as old as the Greeks.
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£25,00
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Deaf Adult Speaks Out
ISBN: PB: 9780930323615, Gallaudet University Press, October 1989
169 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Leo Jacobs has written a unique and personal account of what it is like to be deaf in a hearing world. He speaks out on such issues as mainstreaming and its effect on deaf children and the Deaf community, total communication versus oralism, employmen...
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£14,50
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