Deaf Culture
Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust: A Memoir of the Holocaust
RENEE: I was ten years old then, and my sister was eight. The responsibility was on me to warn everyone when the soldiers were coming because my sister and both my parents were deaf. I was my family's ear...
Deaf Artists in America: Colonial to Contemporary
"The unique and significant contributions that deaf artists have made to the art world are gathered in this anthology of American deaf artists. This complete collection includes more than 300 works of art by more than 60 artists from colonial times to the present. In...
Plays of Our Own
Plays of Our Own (Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance) Read More
For Hearing People Only (3rd Edition) (Copy)
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, easy-to-read, designed for those with no prior background, For Hearing People Only makes a formidab...
The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL : Its History and Structure
Reader Level: Adults
Black ASL has long been recognized as a distinct variety of American Sign Language based on abundant anecdotal evidence. The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL, originally published in 2011, presents the first sociohistorical and linguis...
Forbidden Signs American Culture and the Campaign Against Sign Language
Why did sign language enjoy popularity and esteem until late in the nineteenth century when Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans led a campaign to suppress it? Forbidden Signs explores fundamental changes in what it meant to be human, normal, civilize...
Introduction To American Deaf Culture
Introduction to American Deaf Culture is the only comprehensive textbook that provides a broad, yet in-depth exploration of how Deaf people are best understood from a cultural perspective, with coverage of topics such as how culture is defined, how the concept of cul...
Walk In My Shoes
Walk In My Shoes is the collaborative effort of 28 people affected by Usher syndrome, an incurable, genetically transmitted disease causing combined deafness and blindness. These authors write with both humor an compassion, sharing their journeys in their new "norma...
Literature Series: Bird of a Different Feather and For a Decent Living Student Workbook
The ASL Literature Series Student Workbook accompanies the Student Videotext. Combined these tools will enhance student's ASL comprehension. Students learn how to retell the stories and recognize the linguistic and cultural aspects of the ASL narratives. Linguisti...
Sign Language Archaeology
Sign Language Archaeology: Understanding the Historical Roots of American Sign Language
By: Ted Supalla and Patricia Clark
In this engrossing study, Ted Supalla and Patricia Clark investigate the development of American Sign Language (ASL), revealing ...