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Rising of Lotus Flowers Self-Education by Deaf Children in Thai Boarding Schools
ISBN: HB: 9781563682759, Gallaudet University Press, November 2005
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In developed nations around the world, residential schools for deaf students are giving way to the trend of inclusion in regular classrooms. Nonetheless, deaf education continues to lag as the students struggle to communicate. In the Bua School in Th...
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£45,50
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Assessing Deaf Adults Critical Issues in Testing and Evaluation
ISBN: HB: 9781563683237, Gallaudet University Press, November 2005
208 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
Historically, deaf and hard of hearing people have demonstrated various levels of competence in a multitude of professions, but they also have experienced discrimination and oppression. In five critical sections, this volume responds to the tidal wav...
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£47,50
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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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Deaf Daughter, Hearing Father
ISBN: PB: 9781563682773, Gallaudet University Press, September 2005
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, photos
When Richard Medugno and his wife Brenda learned in 1993 that their17-month-old daughter Miranda was deaf, they grieved, as many hearing parents do. Soon, however, Medugno seized hold of the need to take positive action for Miranda. Deaf Daughter, He...
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£19,00
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Advances in Teaching Sign Language Interpreters
ISBN: HB: 9781563683206, Gallaudet University Press, June 2005
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Picking up where "Innovative Practices in Teaching Sign Language Interpreters" left off, this new collection presents the best new interpreter teaching techniques proven in action by the eminent contributors assembled here. In the first chapter, Denn...
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£47,50
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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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Teach Your Tot to Sign The Parents' Guide to American Sign Language
ISBN: PB: 9781563683114, Gallaudet University Press, April 2005
232 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm
Research has shown that very young children can learn sign language before they learn to speak. "Teach Your Tot to Sign: The Parents' Guide to American Sign Language" provides parents and teachers the opportunity to teach more than 500 basic American...
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£10,00
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Deaf Women's Lives Three Self-Portraits
ISBN: PB: 9781563683213, Gallaudet University Press, March 2005
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, photos
Three deaf women with widely varying stories share their experiences in this unique collection, revealing the vast differences in the circumstances of their lives, but also striking similarities. In Bainy Cyrus's "All Eyes", she vividly describes he...
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£26,50
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Far from Home Memories of World War II and Afterward
ISBN: PB: 9781563683190, Gallaudet University Press, March 2005
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, photos
"She's got no more business there than a pig has with a Bibl". That's what her father said when Mary Herring announced that she would be moving to Washington, DC, in late1942. Recently graduated from the North Carolina School for Black Deaf and Blin...
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£24,00
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Educational Interpreting How It Can Succeed
ISBN: HB: 9781563683091, Gallaudet University Press, February 2005
224 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
This incisive book explores the current state of educational interpreting and how it is failing deaf students. The contributors, all renowned experts in their field, include former educational interpreters, teachers of deaf students, interpreter trai...
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£60,00
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