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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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Deaf Students and the Qualitative Similarity Hypothesis Understanding Language and Literacy Development
ISBN: HB: 9781563685842, Gallaudet University Press, December 2013
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 3 figures, 10 tables
The difficulty that deaf and hard of hearing students have in attaining language and literacy skills has led to postulations that attribute their struggle to a developmental deficit. Recent research reveals, however, that deaf students acquire langua...
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£64,00
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Deaf American Literature From Carnival to the Canon
ISBN: PB: 9781563685774, Gallaudet University Press, February 2013
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this classic bestseller, first published in 2000, Cynthia Peters uses the archetypal concept of the carnival as a framework to interpret the evolution of ASL literature. The Deaf literary canon, much like the carnival itself, represents the "count...
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£47,50
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Deaf Epistemologies Multiple Perspectives on the Acquisition of Knowledge
ISBN: HB: 9781563685255, Gallaudet University Press, April 2012
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 1 table
Epistemology is the study of how "knowledge" is formed. Standard epistemology isolates the "known" from the "knowers", thereby defining "knowledge" as objectively constant. Multiple epistemologies suggest that individuals learn in different ways shap...
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£64,00
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Cochlear Implants Evolving Perspectives
ISBN: HB: 9781563685033, Gallaudet University Press, September 2011
272 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 6 tables, 2 figures
The cochlear implant debate has changed, as evidenced in this cogent collection that presents 13 chapters by 20 experts, including several who communicate through sign language but also utilize cochlear implants. The impetus for this change stems fro...
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£45,00
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Spanish National Deaf School Portraits from the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: HB: 9781563683558, Gallaudet University Press, November 2007
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table, 20 photos
In nineteenth-century Spain, the education of deaf students took shape through various contradictory philosophies and practices. Susan Plann depicts this ambivalence by profiling a select group of teachers and students in her detailed history "The Sp...
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£48,00
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New Civil Right Telecommunications Equality for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Americans
ISBN: HB: 9781563682919, Gallaudet University Press, July 2006
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
When three deaf men in the 1960s invented and sold TTYs, the first teletypewriting devices that allowed deaf people to communicate by telephone, they started a telecommunications revolution for deaf people throughout America. "A New Civil Right: Tele...
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£56,50
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Emergence of the Deaf Community in Nicaragua "With Sign Language You Can Learn So Much"
ISBN: HB: 9781563683244, Gallaudet University Press, October 2005
228 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, photos
The sudden discovery of Nicaraguan Sign Language (NSL) enthralled scholars worldwide who hoped to witness the evolution of a new language. But controversy erupted regarding the validity of NSL as a genuinely spontaneous language created by young chil...
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£28,50
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Educating Deaf Students Global Perspectives
ISBN: HB: 9781563683084, Gallaudet University Press, January 2005
248 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
The 19th International Congress on Education of the Deaf (ICED) in 2000, held in Sydney, Australia, brought together 1,067 teachers, administrators and researchers from 46 countries to address an extremely wide selection of topics. Experts from arou...
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£55,50
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Metaphor in American Sign Language
ISBN: HB: 9781563680991, Gallaudet University Press, March 2001
228 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Only recently have linguists ceased to regard metaphors as mere frills on the periphery of language and begun to recognize them as cornerstones of discourse. Phyllis Wilcox takes this innovation one step further in her fascinating study of metaphors...
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£50,50
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