American Deaf Culture An Anthology Pdf File
Author: Melvia M. The 7 Minute Rotator Cuff Solution Pdf Editor there. Nomeland ISBN: 544 Genre: Social Science File Size: 70.70 MB Format: PDF, ePub Download: 327 Read: 470 The deaf community in the West has endured radical changes in the past centuries. This work of history tracks the changes both in the education of and the social world of deaf people through the years. Topics include attitudes toward the deaf in Europe and America and the evolution of communication and language. Of particular interest is the way in which deafness has been increasingly humanized, rather than medicalized or pathologized, as it was in the past. Successful contributions to the deaf and non-deaf world by deaf individuals are also highlighted.
Category: Social Science. Author: Carol PADDEN ISBN: 752 Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines File Size: 88.34 MB Format: PDF, Mobi Download: 587 Read: 1189 'Inside Deaf Culture relates deaf people's search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self-description as a flourishing culture. Padden and Humphries show how the nineteenth-century schools for the deaf, with their denigration of sign language and their insistence on oralist teaching, shaped the lives of deaf people for generations to come.