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Linguistic Coping Strategies in Sign Language Interpreting
ISBN: HB: 9781563686580, Gallaudet University Press, March 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure
This ground-breaking work, originally published 15 years ago, continues to serve as the primary reference on the theories of omission potential and translational contact in sign language interpreting. In the book, noted scholar Jemina Napier explores...
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£60,00
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International Sign Linguistic, Usage, and Status Issues
ISBN: HB: 9781563686566, Gallaudet University Press, February 2016
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 halftones, 15 tables
International Sign (IS) is widely used among deaf people and interpreters at international events, but what exactly is it, what are its linguistic features, where does its lexicon come from, and how is it used at interpreted events? This groundbreaki...
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£64,00
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Psychological and Psychoeducational Assessment of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children and Adolescents
ISBN: HB: 9781563686504, Gallaudet University Press, January 2016
208 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 1 table, 2 figures
The obstacles to valid and meaningful assessment of deaf and hard of hearing children and adolescents are great, yet professionals are regularly asked to conduct comprehensive evaluations to determine resource and program eligibility, test modificati...
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£52,00
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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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Mental Health Services for Deaf People Treatment Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges
ISBN: HB: 9781563686542, Gallaudet University Press, December 2015
280 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 tables, 2 figures
The World Congress on Mental Health and Deafness first met at Gallaudet University in October 1998, and it has convened five more times in the succeeding years. This volume collects the very best research presented at the Fifth World Congress, which...
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£56,00
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Signed Language Interpretation and Translation Research Selected Papers from the First International Symposium
ISBN: HB: 9781563686481, Gallaudet University Press, November 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 tables, 3 figures, 7 photos
This volume brings together the best research presented at the first International Symposium on Signed Language Interpreting and Translation Research. Editors Brenda Nicodemus and Keith Cagle have gathered an international group of contributors who a...
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£52,50
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Women and Deafness Double Visions
ISBN: PB: 9781563686177, Gallaudet University Press, October 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 tables, 19 figures, sign illus.
This new collection bridges two dynamic academic fields: Women's Studies and Deaf Studies. The 14 contributors to this interdisciplinary volume apply research and methodological approaches from sociology, ethnography, literary/film studies, history,...
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£28,00
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Deaf Heart A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9781563686030, Gallaudet University Press, October 2015
232 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 20 photos
Told through a series of quirky, irreverent short stories and letters home during the early 1980s, "The Deaf Heart" chronicles a year in the life of Dempsey "Max" McCall, a Deaf biomedical photography resident at a teaching hospital on the island of...
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£15,00
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Attitudes, Innuendo, and Regulators Challenges of Interpretation
ISBN: PB: 9781563685682, Gallaudet University Press, August 2015
236 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, tables, figures
The second volume in the Studies in Interpretation series delves further into the intricacies of sign language interpreting in five distinctive chapters. In the first chapter, Lawrence Forestal investigates the shifting attitudes of Deaf leaders towa...
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£47,50
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Learning American Sign Language in High School Motivation, Strategies, and Achievement
ISBN: HB: 9781563686429, Gallaudet University Press, June 2015
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 tables
Reflecting the exponential growth of college courses offering American Sign Language (ASL) as a foreign language, high schools have followed suit with significant increases in ASL classes during the past two decades. Despite this trend, high school A...
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£41,50
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