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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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My Mother Made Me Deaf Discourse and Identity in a Deaf Community
ISBN: HB: 9781563686870, Gallaudet University Press, April 2017
208 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 17 figures, 1 table
The term deaf often sparks heated debates about authority and authenticity. The concept of Deaf identity and affiliation with the DEAF-WORLD are constantly negotiated social constructions that rely heavily on the use of American Sign Language. Howeve...
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£49,00
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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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Mickey's Harvest A Novel of a Deaf Boy's Checkered Life
ISBN: PB: 9781563686368, Gallaudet University Press, February 2015
232 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Howard L. Terry wrote a novel between 1917 and 1922, which he donated to the Gallaudet University Archives in 1951. There it rested until a resurgence of interest in Deaf literature led to its recent rediscovery. Mickey's "Harvest: A Novel of a Deaf...
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£22,50
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More Than Meets the Eye Revealing the Complexities of an Interpreted Education
ISBN: HB: 9781563685798, Gallaudet University Press, November 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 figures, 10 tables
Sign language interpreters often offer the primary avenue of access for deaf and hard of hearing students in public schools. More than 80% of all deaf children today are mainstreamed, and few of their teachers sign well enough to provide them with fu...
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£64,00
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Mrs. Sigourney of Hartford Poems and Prose on the Early American Deaf Community
ISBN: PB: 9781563685576, Gallaudet University Press, May 2013
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Lydia Huntley was born in 1791 in Norwich, CT, the only child of a poor Revolutionary war veteran. But her father's employer, a wealthy widow, gave young Lydia the run of her library and later sent her for visits to Hartford, CT. After teaching at he...
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£34,00
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My Life with Kangaroos A Deaf Woman's Remarkable Story
ISBN: PB: 9781563685590, Gallaudet University Press, May 2013
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 photos
Doris Herrmann was born deaf in 1933 in Basel, Switzerland, and from the age of three, she possessed a mystical attraction to kangaroos. She recalls seeing them at that age for the first time at the Basel Zoo, and spending every spare moment visiting...
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£19,00
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Many Ways to Be Deaf International Variation in Deaf Communities
ISBN: PB: 9781563685781, Gallaudet University Press, January 2013
338 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
The recent explosion of sociocultural, linguistic, and historical research on signed languages throughout the world has culminated in "Many Ways to Be Deaf", an unmatched collection of in-depth articles about linguistic diversity in Deaf communities...
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£58,00
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Moon on the Meadow Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781563683640, Gallaudet University Press, February 2008
144 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
As a child of deaf adults (CODA), Pia Taavila first learned to communicate when her deaf father fingerspelled the names of toys in her crib and her mother showed her the signs for objects in picture books. From this primary visual orientation, in com...
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