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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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Sociolinguistics of Ethiopian Sign Language A Study of Language Use and Attitudes
ISBN: HB: 9781944838065, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 figures
Ethiopian Sign Language (EthSL) emerged relatively recently; its development is closely tied to the establishment of the first school for deaf students in Addis Ababa by American missionaries in 1963. Today, EthSL is used by more than a million membe...
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£45,00
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El Jardin Silencioso (Second Edition) UNA Guia Para Los Padres Para Criar a Un Nino Sordo
ISBN: PB: 9781944838164, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
109 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For over 30 years, "The Silent Garden" has offered parents of deaf children the support and unbiased information needed to fully realize their children's potential. This new Spanish edition, which contains the first five chapters of the completely up...
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£15,00
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Surviving in Silence A Deaf Boy in the Holocaust, The Harry I. Dunai Story
ISBN: PB: 9781563682353, ISBN: HB: 9781563681196, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Izrael Zachariah Deutsch was born on March 15, 1934, in Komjata, Czechoslovakia. The second youngest child, Izrael lived a bucolic existence with nine brothers and sisters on a farm, differing from them only in that he was deaf. When he was six, his...
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£26,00
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£26,00
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Animal Signs A First Book of Sign Language
ISBN: PB: 9781563680496, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
16 pp., 15.9x15.9 cm
Charming, full-color photographs of basic animals plus illustrations of their corresponding signs offer children ages 1 to 4 a fun way to learn their first signs and vocabulary words. Constructed of sturdy cardboard with a protective finish on each p...
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£6,00
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Word Signs A First Book of Sign Language
ISBN: PB: 9781563680489, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
16 pp., 15.9x15.9 cm
Charming, full-color photographs of basic words plus illustrations of their corresponding signs offer children ages 1 to 4 a fun way to learn their first signs and vocabulary words. Constructed of sturdy cardboard with a protective finish on each pag...
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£6,00
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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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