Books
Deaf Plus: A Multicultural Perspective
Deaf Plus: A Multicultural Perspective is a collection of essays providing information about the community that surrounds Deaf children from diverse backgrounds. This community includes the children, their families, and teachers. The belief proposed in that multipl...
Listen with the Heart: Relationships and Hearing Loss
While distressing for an individual, hearing loss also takes a heavy toll on family and friends. These stories chronicle the unique challenges of hearing loss in interpersonal relationships, including communication, self-identity, and how to continue sharing and grow...
Lend Me Your Ear : Rhetorical Constructions of Deafness
The tradition of rhetoric established 2,500 years ago emphasizes the imperative of speech as a defining characteristic of reason. But in her new book Lend Me Your Ear, Brenda Jo Brueggemann exposes this tradition’s effect of disallowing deaf people huma...
For Hearing People Only (2nd Edition)
Here, in a handy question-and-answer format, are answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about deaf people, their community, and their language. Concise, east-to-read, designed for those with no prior background, For Hearing People Only makes a formida...
Educating The Deaf (Third Edition)
Educating the Deaf is the authoritative, comprehensive standard-bearer in its market, offering balanced coverage of hotly contested issues, such as language acquisition vs. manual communication. The text compiles all the major home, school, and community issues that ...
Legal Rights: The Guide for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People (Fifth Edition)
(Fifth Edition)
The standard handbook on law affecting deaf and hard of hearing people has been completely rewritten and updated. The sixth edition of Legal Rights: The Guide for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People meticulously describes those statutes tha...
Understanding Deaf Culture : In Search of Deafhood
This book presents a "Traveler's Guide" to Deaf Culture, starting from the premise that Deaf cultures have an important contribution to make to other academic disciplines, and to human lives in general. Within and outside Deaf communities, there is a need for an acc...
At Home Among Strangers
At Home Among Strangers presents an engrossing portrait of the Deaf community as a complex, nationwide social network that offers unique kinship to deaf people across the country. Schein depicts in striking detail the history and culture of the Deaf community,...
Counselling- The Deaf Challenge
This book is the first to explore the cultural, linguistic and educational challenge presented by deaf people to traditional, broad-based humanistic counselling theory and practice which hinges on the ability to `hear' and to `listen'.
Case studies and dialogu...