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Author : Harlan Lane
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307874710
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book When the Mind Hears written by Harlan Lane and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative statement on the deaf, their education, and their struggle against prejudice.
Author : Jaipreet Virdi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022669075X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Hearing Happiness written by Jaipreet Virdi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together lyrical history and personal memoir, Virdi powerfully examines society’s—and her own—perception of life as a deaf person in America. At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi’s world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but deaf, suddenly treated differently by everyone. Her deafness downplayed by society and doctors, she struggled to “pass” as hearing for most of her life. Countless cures, treatments, and technologies led to dead ends. Never quite deaf enough for the Deaf community or quite hearing enough for the “normal” majority, Virdi was stuck in aural limbo for years. It wasn’t until her thirties, exasperated by problems with new digital hearing aids, that she began to actively assert her deafness and reexamine society’s—and her own—perception of life as a deaf person in America. Through lyrical history and personal memoir, Hearing Happiness raises pivotal questions about deafness in American society and the endless quest for a cure. Taking us from the 1860s up to the present, Virdi combs archives and museums to understand the long history of curious cures: ear trumpets, violet ray apparatuses, vibrating massagers, electrotherapy machines, airplane diving, bloodletting, skull hammering, and many more. Hundreds of procedures and products have promised grand miracles but always failed to deliver a universal cure—a harmful legacy that is still present in contemporary biomedicine. Blending Virdi’s own experiences together with her exploration into the fascinating history of deafness cures, Hearing Happiness is a powerful story that America needs to hear. Praise for Hearing Happiness “In part a critical memoir of her own life, this archival tour de force centers on d/Deafness, and, specifically, the obsessive search for a “cure”. . . . This survey of cure and its politics, framed by disability studies, allows readers—either for the first time or as a stunning example in the field—to think about how notions of remediation are leveraged against the most vulnerable.” —Public Books “Engaging. . . . A sweeping chronology of human deafness fortified with the author’s personal struggles and triumphs.” —Kirkus Reviews “Part memoir, part historical monograph, Virdi’s Hearing Happiness breaks the mold for academic press publications.” —Publishers Weekly “In her insightful book, Virdi probes how society perceives deafness and challenges the idea that a disability is a deficit. . . . [She] powerfully demonstrates how cures for deafness pressure individuals to change, to “be better.” —Washington Post
Author : John V. Van Cleve
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780930323493
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (234 download)
Download or read book A Place of Their Own written by John V. Van Cleve and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using original sources, this unique book focuses on the Deaf community during the 19th century. Largely through schools for the deaf, deaf people began to develop a common language and a sense of community. A Place of Their Own brings the perspective of history to bear on the reality of deafness and provides fresh and important insight into the lives of deaf Americans.
Author : Edward Miner Gallaudet
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780913580851
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (88 download)
Download or read book History of the College for the Deaf, 1857-1907 written by Edward Miner Gallaudet and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melvia M. Nomeland
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786488549
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Deaf Community in America written by Melvia M. Nomeland and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : Thomas K. Holcomb
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199777543
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Introduction to American Deaf Culture written by Thomas K. Holcomb and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to American Deaf Culture provides a fresh perspective on what it means to be Deaf in contemporary hearing society. The book offers an overview of Deaf art, literature, history, and humor, and touches on political, social and cultural themes.
Author : John V. Van Cleve
Publisher : Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Stu
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Deaf History Reader written by John V. Van Cleve and published by Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Stu. This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents an assembly of essays that together offer a remarkably vivid depiction of the varied Deaf experience in America.
Author : Nora Ellen GROCE
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674037952
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book EVERYONE HERE SPOKE SIGN LANGUAGE written by Nora Ellen GROCE and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the seventeenth century to the early years of the twentieth, the population of Martha’s Vineyard manifested an extremely high rate of profound hereditary deafness. In stark contrast to the experience of most deaf people in our own society, the Vineyarders who were born deaf were so thoroughly integrated into the daily life of the community that they were not seen—and did not see themselves—as handicapped or as a group apart. Deaf people were included in all aspects of life, such as town politics, jobs, church affairs, and social life. How was this possible? On the Vineyard, hearing and deaf islanders alike grew up speaking sign language. This unique sociolinguistic adaptation meant that the usual barriers to communication between the hearing and the deaf, which so isolate many deaf people today, did not exist.
Author : Douglas C. Baynton
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Through Deaf Eyes written by Douglas C. Baynton and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the PBS film, 200 photographs and text depict the American deaf community and its place in our nation's history.
Author : Carol A. Padden
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674283171
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Deaf in America written by Carol A. Padden and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by authors who are themselves Deaf, this unique book illuminates the life and culture of Deaf people from the inside, through their everyday talk, their shared myths, their art and performances, and the lessons they teach one another. Carol Padden and Tom Humphries employ the capitalized "Deaf" to refer to deaf people who share a natural language—American Sign Language (ASL—and a complex culture, historically created and actively transmitted across generations. Signed languages have traditionally been considered to be simply sets of gestures rather than natural languages. This mistaken belief, fostered by hearing people’s cultural views, has had tragic consequences for the education of deaf children; generations of children have attended schools in which they were forbidden to use a signed language. For Deaf people, as Padden and Humphries make clear, their signed language is life-giving, and is at the center of a rich cultural heritage. The tension between Deaf people’s views of themselves and the way the hearing world views them finds its way into their stories, which include tales about their origins and the characteristics they consider necessary for their existence and survival. Deaf in America includes folktales, accounts of old home movies, jokes, reminiscences, and translations of signed poems and modern signed performances. The authors introduce new material that has never before been published and also offer translations that capture as closely as possible the richness of the original material in ASL. Deaf in America will be of great interest to those interested in culture and language as well as to Deaf people and those who work with deaf children and Deaf people.
Author : Jack R. Gannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781563685149
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Deaf Heritage written by Jack R. Gannon and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Silver Spring, Md.: National Association of the Deaf, 1981.
Author : Harlan L. Lane
Publisher : Dawnsign Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Journey Into the Deaf-world written by Harlan L. Lane and published by Dawnsign Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience life as it is in the U.S. for those who cannot hear.
Author : Lynn E. McElfresh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781608981274
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (812 download)
Download or read book Strong Deaf written by Lynn E. McElfresh and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jade, the only hearing member in her family, and her older sister, Marla, end up on the same softball team for the summer, neither is happy about it. As sisters, they are often at loggerheads, but as teammates, they have to find ways to get along. In spite of their differences, they soon discover that each has a lot to offer the other.
Author : John V. Van Cleve
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781563680878
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Deaf History Unveiled written by John V. Van Cleve and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1970s, when Deaf history as a formal discipline did not exist, the study of Deaf people, their culture and language, and how hearing societies treated them has exploded. Deaf History Unveiled: Interpretations from the New Scholarship presents the latest findings from the new scholars mining this previously neglected, rich field of inquiry. The sixteen essays featured in Deaf History Unveiled include the work of Harlan Lane, Renate Fischer, Margret A. Winzer, William McCagg, and twelve other noted historians who presented their research at the First International Conference on Deaf History in 1991.
Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Blind and the Deaf, 1900 written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Deaf-mutes in the United States written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol Erting
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781563680267
Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Deaf Way written by Carol Erting and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected papers from the conference held in Washington DC, July 9-14, 1989.
