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Signing in Puerto Rican A Hearing Son and His Deaf Family
ISBN: PB: 9781563684173, Gallaudet University Press, December 2009
200 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 10 photos
The only child of deaf Puerto Rican immigrants, Andres Torres grew up in New York City in a large, extended family that included several deaf aunts and uncles. In "Signing in Puerto Rican: A Hearing Son and His Deaf Family", he opens a window into th...
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£26,50
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Deaf History and Culture in Spain A Reader of Primary Documents
ISBN: HB: 9781563684197, Gallaudet University Press, December 2009
260 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 10 photos
In this landmark reader, Benjamin Fraser offers in five parts 44 Spanish documents dating from 1417 to the present, translated for the first time to trace the turbulent history of Deaf culture in Spain. Part I: The Birth of Oralism and Deafness as Me...
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£60,00
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Toward a Deaf Translation Norm
ISBN: HB: 9781563684180, Gallaudet University Press, November 2009
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 tables, 26 figures
As access to deaf people grows around the world, a new profession has begun to emerge as well, that of Deaf translators and interpreters (T/Is). In his new study "Toward a Deaf Translation Norm", Christopher Stone explores this innovation, including...
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£60,00
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Extraordinary from the Ordinary Personal Experience Narratives in American Sign Language
ISBN: HB: 9781563684166, Gallaudet University Press, November 2009
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 tables, 117 figures, 706 photos in figures
Personal narratives are one way people code their experiences and convey them to others. Given that speakers can simultaneously express information and define a social situation, analyzing how and why people structure the telling of personal narrativ...
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£68,00
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Forging Deaf Education in Nineteenth-Century France Biographical Sketches of Bebian, Sicard, Massieu, and Clerc
ISBN: HB: 9781563684159, Gallaudet University Press, October 2009
148 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 photos
In 1811, deaf student Ferdinand Berthier commenced his education at the National Institute for the Deaf in Paris under its director Abbe Sicard and his teachers Auguste Bebian, Jean Massieu, and Laurent Clerc. Their tutelage eventually led Berthier t...
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£48,00
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Whispers of a Savage Sort And Other Plays about the Deaf American Experience
ISBN: PB: 9781563684203, Gallaudet University Press, September 2009
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Oh, why can't the deaf community be more like a family?" is the plaint of a character in Raymond Luczak's title play Whispers of a Savage Sort. It also goes far in characterizing the main thread that runs through his remarkable collection of work of...
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£37,50
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From Integration to Inclusion A History of Special Education in the 20th Century
ISBN: HB: 9781563683657, Gallaudet University Press, September 2009
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 3 tables
Since Margret A. Winzer wrote her lamark work "The History of Special Education", much has transpired in this field, which she again has captured in a remarkable display of scholarship. Winzer's new study From Integration to Inclusion: A History of...
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£60,00
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Handy Stories to Read and Sign
ISBN: PB: 9781563684074, Gallaudet University Press, September 2009
56 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 39 full colour illus.
"Handy Stories to Read and Sign" takes a bilingual, fun approach to help beginning readers, deaf and hearing, improve their comprehension of both English and American Sign Language (ASL). Charmingly illustrated, the five stories presented here increa...
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£15,00
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I Fill This Small Space The Writings of a Deaf Activist
ISBN: PB: 9781563684081, Gallaudet University Press, August 2009
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Lawrence Newman became deaf at the age of five in 1930, and saw his father fight back tears knowing that his son would never hear again. The next time he saw his father cry was in 1978, when Newman received an honorary doctorate from Gallaudet Univer...
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£37,50
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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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