| Subject |
Deaf -- United States
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Deaf persons |
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United States |
| Add'l Author |
Humphries, Tom (Tom L.)
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| Description |
vii, 134 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
ISLR-Interpreting/Sign Language Resources |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-129) and index |
| Contents |
Learning to be deaf -- Images of being -- A different center -- Living in others' world -- A changing consciousness -- The meaning of sound -- Historically created lives |
| Summary |
Refusing to accept the limitations others have placed on the deaf, the authors--themselves deaf--argue for a deaf culture, one united by and expressed through the American Sign Language |
| ISBN |
0674194233 |
|
9780674194236 |
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0674194241 |
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9780674194243 |
| OCLC # |
17875818 |
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