A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in AmericaGallaudet University Press, 1989 - 212 pages 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. |
Contents
Prophets and Physicians | 1 |
To Educate a Deaf Person | 10 |
Braidwood and the Bollings | 21 |
A Permanent School | 29 |
The Residential School Experience | 47 |
A Deaf State | 60 |
A College | 71 |
Organizing | 87 |
Cultural Connections | 98 |
The Assault on Sign Language | 106 |
The Struggle to Save Signs | 128 |
Marriage | 142 |
Employing the Deaf Community | 155 |
Bibliography | 192 |
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A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America John Vickrey Van Cleve No preview available - 1989 |
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