The Conquest of Deafness
Author : Ruth E. Bender
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Medical
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Author : Ruth E. Bender
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Medical
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Author : Ruth E. Bender
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 32,14 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Education
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Author : Ruth E. Bender
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
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Author : Ruth E. Bender
Publisher :
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Deaf
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Author : R. A. R. Edwards
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Education
ISBN : 1479883735
During the early nineteenth century, schools for the deaf appeared in the United States for the first time. These schools were committed to the use of the sign language to educate deaf students. Manual education made the growth of the deaf community possible, for it gathered deaf people together in sizable numbers for the first time in American history. It also fueled the emergence of Deaf culture, as the schools became agents of cultural transformations. Just as the Deaf community began to be recognized as a minority culture, in the 1850s, a powerful movement arose to undo it, namely oral education. Advocates of oral education, deeply influenced by the writings of public school pioneer Horace Mann, argued that deaf students should stop signing and should start speaking in the hope that the Deaf community would be abandoned, and its language and culture would vanish. In this revisionist history, Words Made Flesh explores the educational battles of the nineteenth century from both hearing and deaf points of view. It places the growth of the Deaf community at the heart of the story of deaf education and explains how the unexpected emergence of Deafness provoked the pedagogical battles that dominated the field of deaf education in the nineteenth century, and still reverberate today.
Author : Katie Booth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1501167111
"An astonishingly revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell, telling the true-and troubling-story of the inventor of the telephone. We think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but that's not how he saw his own career. Bell was an elocution teacher by profession. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach the deaf to speak. Even his tinkering sprang from his teaching work; the telephone had its origins as a speech reading machine. And yet by the end of his life, despite his best efforts-or perhaps, more accurately, because of them-Bell had become the American Deaf community's most powerful enemy. The Invention of Miracles recounts an extraordinary piece of forgotten history. Weaving together a moving love story with a fascinating tale of innovation, it follows the complicated tragedy of a brilliant young man who set about stamping out what he saw as a dangerous language: Sign. The book offers a heartbreaking look at how heroes can become villains and how good intentions are, unfortunately, nowhere near enough-as well as a powerful account of the dawn of a civil rights movement and the triumphant tale of how the Deaf community reclaimed their once-forbidden language. Katie Booth has been researching this story for over a decade, poring over Bell's papers, Library of Congress archives, and the records of deaf schools around America. But she's also lived with this story for her entire life. Witnessing the damaging impact of Bell's legacy on her family would set her on a path that upturned everything she thought she knew about language, power, deafness, and the telephone"--
Author : Jim Reisler
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,68 MB
Release : 2015-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786484136
The deaf world is a complex one, divided by the allegiance of some to Deaf Culture, which emphasizes communication by sign-language, and by others to oralism, which emphasizes speech as the primary means of communication, and still others to a program called Total Communication, which stresses both signing and speaking. Today, more and more deaf people, especially children, are choosing oralism because it helps them fit into mainstream society better. This work presents interviews with fourteen extraordinary oral deaf role models from diverse backgrounds and professions. Wall Street banker Ralph Marra, paralegal Kristin Buehl, 1984 Olympic gold medalist Jeff Float, percussionist Evelyn Glennie, engineer George Oberlander, university mathematics professor Dr. David James, law professor Bonnie Poitras Tucker, executive Carolyn Ginsburg, foundation head Mildred Oberkotter, architect Tom Fields, accountant and institute executive director Ken Levinson, finance manager Michael Janger, school administrator Kathleen Suffridge Treni, and teacher Karen Kirby tell of their experiences and stories, discuss what helped and what hindered them, and offer advice to parents of deaf children. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : Harlan Lane
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 2010-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307874710
The authoritative statement on the deaf, their education, and their struggle against prejudice.
Author : Owen Wrigley
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 11,20 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781563680649
Lays out the practical steps families can take to adjust to a loved one's hearing loss. The book shows how the exchange of information can be altered at fundamental levels, what these alterations entail, and how they can affect one's ability to understand and interpret spoken communication.
Author : Katherine A. Jankowski
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9781563680618
This book makes a strong case for distinguishing the Deaf movement from social movements occurring in the disability community. It should be read by anyone who wants to know why this political and ideological split between deaf people and people with other types of physical impairments is occurring.