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Tuesday, January 21, 2003
CHOICE Awards the
‘Best of the Best’
Two of Gallaudet University Press’s
titles,
Cochlear Implants in Children: Ethics and Choices by John B. Christiansen
and Irene W. Leigh and
Language in
Hand: Why Sign Came Before Speech by the late William C. Stokoe, were
selected by CHOICE magazine for inclusion in its 39th annual
Outstanding Academic Title list.
“These
outstanding titles have been selected for their excellence in scholarship and
presentation, the significance of their contribution to the field, and their
value as important—often the first—treatment of their subject,”
applauds Irving E. Rockwood, Editor and Publisher of CHOICE magazine,
“...truly the
‘best of the
best’.” Read
the reviews of
Cochlear
Implants in Children and
Language in
Hand. Take advantage of your exclusive subscriber discount and
order
both today.
Past CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title winners include Cynthia Peters’
Deaf American
Literature: From Carnival to the Canon,
Special Education in the 21st
Century: Issues of Inclusion and Reform edited by Margret A. Winzer and Kas
Mazurek, 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 Deaf
American Literature CHOICE writes, “Peters
has produced a truly seminal work of tremendous value to a variety of readers
outside the Deaf community itself: sociologists, linguists, and those in the
comparative literature field.”
Of
Special Education,
CHOICE exclaims, “Beautifully written...the
volume is to be commended because it is readable, thought-provoking, and offers
material appropriate for those interested in the future of special education.”
Original Signs also garnered notice from
CHOICE: “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. CHOICE
praises: “This
compilation of presentations...provides the most comprehensive international perspective on deaf
culture to date.”
Progress in Sign Language
Research: In Honor of Siegmund Prillwitz is the latest edition to be added
to the Signum
Verlag series. To celebrate the 60th birthday of Siegmund Prillwitz,
founder of the Institute for German Sign Language at Hamburg University, and to honor
his thirty years of commitment to the field of sign language research, sixteen
renowned researchers and research teams from all over the world have published
Progress in Sign Language Research. The
contributions cover topics about the history of sign language communities,
linguistic analyses in sign language research, and insights from education and
training. Reflecting the authors’
countries of origin, the papers relate to several European and non-European sign
languages, and in many cases even compare languages.
Read the preface
to Progress in Sign Language Research and
order your copy.
 The
early bird registration deadline for the international conference
“Genetics, Disability, and Deafness”
on April 2-4, 2003, is steadily approaching.
Register on-line for this seminal
conference about the latest concepts in
genetics as they relate to disability and deafness
by
February
1, 2003,
and receive a 10% discount.
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