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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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Shifting the Dialog, Shifting the Culture Pathways to Successful Postsecondary Outcomes for Deaf Individuals
ISBN: HB: 9781944838126, Gallaudet University Press, November 2017
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 figures, 5 illus.
In this volume, Stephanie W. Cawthon and Carrie Lou Garberoglio discuss the individual and systemic factors that both facilitate and inhibit the attainment of postsecondary education, training, and career goals for deaf individuals. Real-life example...
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£52,50
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Deaf to the Marrow Deaf Social Organizing and Active Citizenship in Viet Nam
ISBN: HB: 9781563686856, Gallaudet University Press, October 2017
256 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 40 photographs, 1 map
In "Deaf to the Marrow", public anthropologist Audrey C. Cooper examines the social production and transformation of ideas about language, bodies, and state-structured educational institutions in southern Viet Nam. Focusing on the reform period (1986...
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£64,00
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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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Citizenship, Politics, Difference Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Signed Language Communities
ISBN: HB: 9781563686344, Gallaudet University Press, June 2015
232 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 15 figures
Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the most linguistically, culturally, and geographically diverse regions of the world, home to more than 2,000 languages. As in the rest of the world, Deaf people live throughout the widely varying sub-Saharan communities,...
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£60,00
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On the Beat of Truth A Hearing Daughter's Stories of Her Black Deaf Parents
ISBN: PB: 9781563685521, Gallaudet University Press, June 2013
184 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 25 photos
As an African American woman born in 1943, Maxine Childress Brown possessed a unique vantage point to witness the transformative events in her parents' lives. Both came from the South – her father, Herbert Childress, from Nashville, TN, and her mothe...
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£22,50
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Deaf Children in China
ISBN: PB: 9781563683398, Gallaudet University Press, February 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
To learn how Chinese parents raise their deaf children, Alison Callaway in 1994 conducted extensive research in the city of Nanjing. There, she interviewed the parents of 26 deaf children while also carefully analyzing a large collection of letters w...
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£52,50
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Accountability-Based Reforms The Impact on Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
ISBN: HB: 9781563684852, Gallaudet University Press, February 2011
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, tables, figures
For years, school reform efforts targeted either students in regular education or those with special needs, but not both. As a result of the No Child Left Behind legislation (NCLB) and its focus on accountability, administrators established policies...
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£41,50
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Reflections My Life in the Deaf and Hearing Worlds
ISBN: PB: 9781563684777, Gallaudet University Press, December 2010
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, photos, figures
Hard of hearing since early childhood, John Christiansen spent the first 30 years of his life trying to fit in to a hearing world that did little to accommodate his communication needs. Although he excelled in academics, Christiansen found social sit...
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£26,50
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Vignettes of the Deaf Character and Other Plays
ISBN: PB: 9781563684098, Gallaudet University Press, June 2009
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 photos
After spending three years in The National Theatre of the Deaf performing plays by hearing authors featuring hearing characters, Willy Conley realized that he wanted to write plays with deaf, hard-of- hearing, and hearing characters created from the...
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£45,00
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