Deaf Culture
Deaf Culture Behind Bars: Signs and Stories of a Texas Population
A Deaf woman offender describes her struggle with the cycle of violence in her life. Deaf inmates talk about choices made while in the grips of addiction. A Deaf offender reveals pride as the father of a Deaf son. From communicating with police officers to surviva...
Deaf Culture Our Way
Fourth Edition
Using humorous stories with illustrations, this classic collection brings deaf culture to life through personal experiences and practical day-to-day information. Various aspects of the deaf world are illuminated through anecdotes, updated in th...
A Loss For Words
A deeply moving, often humorous, and beautiful account of what it means to be the hearing child of profoundly deaf parents.
Lou Ann Walker, Author
Published by Harper & Row, New York
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 ...
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...
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...
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,...
Dancing Without Music
More than a decade ago, Beryl Lieff Benderly wrote in Dancing Without Music about two burning issues of the Deaf community: oralism versus American Sign Language, and the rights of Deaf people. Now, her masterful book is available again. With scientific precision, Da...
A Journey into the Deaf World
In this comprehensive and engrossing study, three distinguished scholars of Deaf culture - one hearing, one deaf, and one CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) - Offer clear, penetrating insights into the existence and makeup of the Deaf-World, the community whose natural lang...