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Mrs. Sigourney of Hartford
Poems and Prose on the Early American Deaf Community

Edna Edith Sayers and
Diana Moore, Editors

Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791 – 1865) was an internationally known poet, the author of fifty-six books, and some two thousand magazine articles. This book focuses on Sigourney’s experience in the nascent American Deaf Community through her poems and prose pieces.

My Life with Kangaroos

Doris Herrmann
with Michael Gaida and Theres Jöhl

Doris Herrmann was born deaf in 1933 near Basel, Switzerland, and later became blind. Her childhood fascination with kangaroos led her to repeated travels to Australia in her adult years, where she eventually became a respected researcher on the behaviour of her beloved marsupials.

Sign Language Acquisition by Deaf and Hearing Children

Deborah Chen Pichler, Marlon Kuntze, Diane Lillo-Martin, Ronice Müller de Quadros, and Marianne Rossi Stumpf

This digital text provides a thorough introductory course on sign language acquisition, explaining the universal properties of first language acquisition, including patterns common to both signed and spoken languages. It includes 12 chapters signed in ASL with voiceover, a PDF file of the full written text presented in the video frames, glossary, and a complete reference list.

Service Learning in Interpreter Education

Sherry Shaw

This book introduces and develops the concept of service learning as a tool for re-centering the Deaf community in interpreter education for the purpose of extending student involvement beyond field experience such as internship or practicum.

On the Beat of Truth

Maxine Childress Brown

Brown, the oldest of three hearing daughters born to deaf, working class parents, tells stories of her parents’ youth, their tenacious work ethic, their incredible pride of family, their interactions with the deaf African American and white communities, and the suffering they endured living in a hearing world.