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Other Side of Silence Sign Language and the Deaf Community in America
ISBN: PB: 9780930323646, Gallaudet University Press, March 1990
301 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Arden Neisser's classic on American Sign Language (ASL) is again available, with a new prologue. "The Other Side of Silence" chronicles the culture and issues of the Deaf community through telling interviews and research from across the country. In w...
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£17,50
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Gallaudet Survival Guide to Signing
ISBN: PB: 9780930323677, Gallaudet University Press, February 1990
203 pp., 17.8x10.8 cm
Here is the best book for beginners to learn basic American Sign Language vocabulary! "The Survival Guide" features more than 500 of the most commonly used signs, complete with illustrations and descriptions on how to form each one. Offers fast acces...
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£7,50
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Speak to Me!
ISBN: PB: 9780930323684, Gallaudet University Press, January 1990
154 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
This compelling true-life story deals with a single parent making the discovery that her 1-year-old son is deaf.
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£13,50
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How To Survive Hearing Loss
ISBN: PB: 9781563680137, Gallaudet University Press, November 1989
241 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Charlotte Himber counts herself among 22 million Americans who have signficant hearing loss. Like 40 per cent of those with hearing loss, hers grew worse as she became older. In this book, she shares her first-hand experience, her feelings and the kn...
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£19,00
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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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Place of Their Own Creating the Deaf Community in America
ISBN: PB: 9780930323493, Gallaudet University Press, March 1989
212 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Using original sources, this unique book focuses on the Deaf community during the nineteenth century. Largely through schools for the deaf, deaf people began to develop a common language and a sense of community. "A Place of Their Own" brings the per...
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£17,50
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My Signing Book of Numbers
ISBN: HB: 9780930323370, Gallaudet University Press, February 1988
59 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm
This full-color picture book helps children learn their numbers in sign language. Each two-page spread of this delightfully illustrated book has the appropriate number of things or creatures for the numbers 0 through 20. The signs for the numbers 30,...
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£17,50
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Chris Gets Ear Tubes
ISBN: PB: 9780930323363, Gallaudet University Press, November 1987
44 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm
"Chris was having trouble with his ears. He just couldn't hear right... every time anyone said anything, Chris would shout "'WHAT'?". "Chris Gets Ear Tubes" explains what happens before, during, and after the surgery in language a child understands....
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£11,50
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Season of Change
ISBN: PB: 9780930323271, Gallaudet University Press, October 1987
100 pp., 17.8x10.8 cm
Everyone treats Biney Richmond, 13 and hard of hearing, as though she should be wrapped in cotton, until she proves to everyone how grown up she really is during a crisis with a friend.
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£3,00
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Never the Twain Shall Meet Bell, Gallaudet, and the Communications Debate
ISBN: PB: 9781563680564, Gallaudet University Press, August 1987
129 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Throughout the last two centuries, a controversial question has plagued the field of education of the deaf: should sign language be used to communicate with and instruct deaf children? Never the Twain Shall Meet focuses on the debate over this questi...
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