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Signed Language Interpreting in the 21st Century An Overview of the Profession
ISBN: HB: 9781944838249, Gallaudet University Press, December 2018
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 tables, 2 figures
This text provides interpreting students with a broad knowledge base that encompasses the latest research, addresses current trends and perspectives of the Deaf community, and promotes critical thinking and open dialogue about the working conditions,...
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£53,00
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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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Deaf Eyes on Interpreting
ISBN: HB: 9781944838270, Gallaudet University Press, August 2018
272 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 7 figures, 3 tables
As the ASL-English interpreting field has become professionalized, there is a growing disconnect between interpreters and the Deaf consumers they serve. Whereas interpreting used to be a community-based practice, the field is growing into a research-...
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£60,00
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Here or There Research on Interpreting via Video Link
ISBN: HB: 9781944838225, Gallaudet University Press, August 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 tables, 11 illus., 5 figures
The field of sign language interpreting is undergoing an exponential increase in the delivery of services through remote and video technologies. The nature of these technologies challenges established notions of interpreting as a situated, communicat...
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£71,50
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Case Studies in Deaf Education Inquiry, Application, and Resources
ISBN: HB: 9781944838188, Gallaudet University Press, July 2018
264 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 38 figures, 4 tables
"Case Studies in Deaf Education" provides comprehensive materials that will prepare prospective teachers to work with the diverse spectrum of students who are d/Deaf and hard of hearing (d/Dhh) and empower them to better understand these complex and...
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£60,00
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Sister and Brother A Family Story
ISBN: PB: 9781944838201, Gallaudet University Press, June 2018
248 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 illus., 1 figure
In this historical narrative, Swedish novelist Agneta Pleijel follows the lives of two ancestors, a sister and brother, each of whom played a role in the cultural life of Stockholm in the 19th century. Using old letters, records, and stories passed d...
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£26,50
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Indian Sign Language An Analysis of Its Grammar
ISBN: HB: 9781944838089, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 266 photos, 40 tables, 10 figures
Samar Sinha presents pioneering research into the grammatical properties of Indian Sign Language (ISL), a language used by members of the Deaf community in India. This detailed and well-illustrated study describes the grammar of ISL and is supplement...
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£49,00
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Language, Power, and Resistance Mainstreaming Deaf Education
ISBN: HB: 9781944838041, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 figures, 1 table
The current policy of educating d/Deaf and h/Hard of hearing (DHH) students in a mainstream setting, rather than in the segregated environments of deaf schools, has been portrayed as a positive step forward in creating greater equality for DHH studen...
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£45,00
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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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My Life of Language A Memoir
ISBN: PB: 9781944838140, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 photos
Paul W. Ogden has dedicated his life to educating young deaf and hard of hearing people and raising awareness of what it means to be deaf in a hearing world. He has taught and mentored a generation of teachers, and his classic volume, The Silent Gard...
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£22,50
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