 4:1
Monday, January 28, 2002That
Championship Season Gallaudet's
1999 Women's
Basketball Team Makes a Statement
Since its earliest days, Gallaudet University has enjoyed a rich tradition of
women's athletics. Therefore, the success of the women's basketball team in 1999 did not take the Gallaudet faithful completely by surprise. Their superb athletic ability won them the Capital Athletic Conference regular season championship and advanced
them to the “Sweet Sixteen” rung of the NCAA Division III National tournament.
Most tellingly, the Bisonettes demonstrated that deaf student athletes could compete
with hearing colleges
and win. Wendy Tiefenbacher, then an adjunct professor in the Department of Television,
Photography, and Educational Technology at Gallaudet University, was so
impressed that she challenged her Gallaudet photography students to create Deaf
Girls Rule: A Photographic Essay of the 1999 Champion Gallaudet University
Women's Basketball Team. Tiefenbacher reveals what she discovered: “...deafness was no barrier to success on the
court and this was a women's team to
be reckoned with.” She continues with: “I am in awe of every deaf person who
breaks the stereotype of handicap and shows such remarkable talent and
perseverance in the hearing world.” Deaf
Girls Rule is a visual celebration of the competition and excellence
experienced by the women's basketball team during one outstanding season. These extraordinary
images vividly capture the emotions of the players, the coaches, and the
Gallaudet fans. View just a few of these beautiful
photographs and take advantage of your exclusive 20% subscriber discount
when you order
Deaf Girls Rule.  
John B. Christiansen and Irene W. Leigh's Cochlear
Implants in Children: Ethics and Choices has received a glowing endorsement from a
highly respected professional in the field. Doug Lynch, Director, Marketing Communications
at Advanced Bionics Corporation said, “I
applaud you (John B. Christiansen) and Dr. Leigh for writing an enlightening
book that is a must read for anyone remotely interested in the topic of cochlear
implantation. Your book clearly states that one
of its objectives is to find a more common ground of understanding and
appreciation for the issues.” He continues with,
“It
is a thought-provoking
description of the changing cultural dynamics of deafness and cochlear
implantation.”
Cochlear Implants in Children addresses
the current state of the new technology and provides observations
and recommendations for the parents of deaf children as well as the
professionals who work with them. Read chapter 5, “The
Cochlear Implant Center, Surgery, and Short-Term Post-Implant Outcomes”,
and order Christiansen
and Leigh's Cochlear
Implants.
Recently, two
of Gallaudet University Press's titles, Deaf
American Literature: From Carnival to the Canon by Cynthia Peters and Special
Education in the 21st Century: Issues of Inclusion and Reform
edited by Margret A. Winzer and Kas Mazurek, were selected by CHOICE for
inclusion in its 38th annual Outstanding Academic Title list.
“These
titles were selected for their excellence in scholarship and presentation, the
significance of their contribution to the field, and for their value as important—often
the first—treatment of a specific subject,”
applauds Irving E. Rockwood, CHOICE Editor and Publisher, “...truly
the ‘best of the best’”.
Read CHOICE's reviews and order Deaf
American Literature and Special
Education in the 21st Century. Past Outstanding
Academic Title winners include David F. Armstrong's Original
Signs: Gesture, Sign, and the Sources of Language and The
Deaf Way: Perspectives from the International Conference on Deaf Culture
edited by Carol J. Erting, Robert C. Johnson, Dorothy L. Smith, and Bruce D.
Snider. About Original Signs CHOICE
writes, “Armstrong's historical analysis
illustrates how the politics of social attitude has influenced scientific views
about such questions as whether or not a signed language can be a real language
in its own right...provid(es) insight into basic questions about the nature and
evolution of language as a multimodal phenomenon–audio and visual in its
essence.”
The Deaf Way documents an
extraordinary moment in America's history when more than 6,000 deaf people from around the world met
at Gallaudet University to celebrate Deaf culture. Order
your copies of Original Signs
and The Deaf Way today.
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