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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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Hidden Treasure of Black ASL Its History and Structure
ISBN: HB + DVD: 9781563684890, Gallaudet University Press, October 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, tables, figures
People who first encounter sign language often ask if all deaf people sign the same language and are surprised to learn that there are different sign languages in different nations worldwide, as well as variations of these languages. One variation, B...
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£60,00
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Historical and Etymological Dictionary of American Sign Language
ISBN: HB: 9781563686214, Gallaudet University Press, June 2015
344 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 1150 sign illus.
The story of how American Sign Language (ASL) came to be is almost mythic. In the early 19th century, a hearing American reverend, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, met a Deaf French educator, Laurent Clerc, who agreed to come to the United States and help e...
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£56,50
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History of Gallaudet University 150 Years of a Deaf American Institution
ISBN: HB: 9781563685958, Gallaudet University Press, June 2014
208 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 25 illus., 225 photos
On April 8, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln and the United States Congress put into effect legislation authorizing the granting of collegiate degrees by the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind. At this moment,...
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£60,00
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Human Right to Language Communication Access for Deaf Children
ISBN: PB: 9781563685910, Gallaudet University Press, March 2013
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In 1982, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Amy Rowley, a deaf six-year-old, was not entitled to have a sign language interpreter in her public school classroom. Lawrence Siegel wholeheartedly disagrees with this decision in his new book "The...
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£37,50
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History of Special Education From Isolation to Integration
ISBN: PB: 9781563685514, Gallaudet University Press, June 2012
464 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, charts, tables
This comprehensive volume examines the facts, characters, and events that shaped this field in Western Europe, Canada, and the United States. From the first efforts to teach disabled people in early Christian and Medieval eras to such current mandate...
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£54,00
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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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Hearing Difference The Third Ear in Experimental, Deaf, and Multicultural Theater
ISBN: HB: 9781563682902, Gallaudet University Press, May 2006
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This engrossing study investigates the connections between hearing and deafness in experimental, Deaf, and multicultural theater. Author Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren focuses on how to articulate a Deaf aesthetic and how to grasp the meaning of moments of "...
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£48,00
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History of Inclusion in the United States
ISBN: HB: 9781563683183, Gallaudet University Press, May 2005
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
As a significant term, inclusion came into use relatively recently in the long history of special education in the United States. Since the 1800s, when children with disabilities first were segregated for instruction in public schools, professionals...
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£45,00
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Handbook of Pediatric Audiology
ISBN: PB: 9781563681097, Gallaudet University Press, January 2001
450 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
"The Handbook of Pediatric Audiology" presents 14 comprehensive chapters written by the preeminent expert in each discipline. Clinicians and other professionals and students now can refer to specific subjects in pediatric audiology for treating child...
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£64,50
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