Books
So You Want to Be An Interpreter
This book has evolved from more than 20 years of field-based research and classroom instruction. The authors have written the book so that both newcomers to the field of Sign Language interpretation and long-term practitioners can easily understand the history, tren...
Cultural and Language Diversity and The Deaf Experience
This edited volume provides a comprehensive analysis of deaf people as a culturally and linguistically distinct minority group within American society. Many educators, linguists, and researchers now favor this position, as opposed to that which states that a deaf per...
I Was Number 87
A Deaf Woman's Ordeal of Misdiagnosis, Institutionalization
In relating the story of how she was misdiagnosed as retarded rather than deaf and mistreated at home and at an institution, a longtime employee of General Motors writes: "I sincerely hope that this ...
Adjustment to Adult Hearing Loss
Experiences of Adult Hearing Loss.
Edited by Harold Orlans, Ph.D.
Authorized by Gallaudet Research Institute and U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Published by Singular Publishing Group, Inc., San Diego, CA
Inner Lives of Deaf Children
While many researchers focus on the educational development of deaf children, Precious little time has been devoted to studying a deaf child's social development and self-concept. conducting interviews with seven deaf children between the ages of seven and ten, auth...
What the Hands Reveal about the Brain
What the Hands Reveal About the Brain provides dramatic evidence that language is not limited to hearing and speech: there are primary linguistic systems, passed down from one generation of deaf people to the next, which have been forged into autonomous languages and...
Turning Points in the Education of Deaf People
The book is a chronological series of narratives describing those historical occurrences which have had, each in its own way, a specific impact on the direction and progress of education for the deaf. While the historical backdrop of each episode is developed and li...
Original Signs: Gesture, Sign, and the Sources of Language
Since Darwin's time, the majority of evolutionary linguists have theorized that language defines human beings and that speech defines language. In Original Signs, David Armstrong disputes the latter concept by showing that language has evolved in many different ways ...
Silence is Golden Sometimes
This new edition of Hazards of Deafness contains choice selections from the original book. Although the main purpose is to show the humorous side of deafness, this collection of anecdotes has another purpose for those hearing people who are anxious to know deaf perso...