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Monday, February 21, 2005
From the Country to the City and Back Again
Mary Herring Wright Continues Her Memoirs
From the author of Sounds Like
Home: Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South comes
Far from Home:
Memories of World War II and Afterward. In it, Mary Herring Wright continues
her memoirs in describing her life as a Deaf African American woman working in
Washington, D.C., during World War II, then raising a family in her hometown of
Iron Mine, NC.
In Sounds Like Home, the first memoir of
its kind, Wright’s careful, moving description of her school years riveted her
readers. The History of
Education Quarterly declared, “It contains great information on African
American culture and experience in particular,” while Booklist noted, “Thoughtfully expressed experiences permeate this compelling book.”
Far from Home is equally as captivating. When Wright announced that she
would be moving to Washington, D.C., in late1942, her fathered commented, “She’s
got no more business there than a pig has with a Bible.” However, she proved her
father wrong. She passed the civil service examination with high marks and
became a valued employee for the Navy. But not even close friends and a good job
could shield Wright from the emotional toll she endured being away from her
family. She soon returned to Iron Mine, NC with its familiar country living.
Read about Mary Herring Wright’s move to the nation’s capital in chapter two,
“The Start of My Big City Life,” and
order Far
from Home at your exclusive
subscriber discount rate.
 Hot
off the press!
Educational Interpreting: How It Can Succeed, edited by Elizabeth A. Winston,
has just been released this month. Divided into
three parts—Deaf
Students, Interpreting and Interpreters, and Improving Interpreted
Education—this incisive book explores the current state of educational
interpreting, why it fails, and how it can succeed by defining the knowledge and
skills interpreters must have and developing standards of practice and
assessment. The contributors, all renowned experts in their field, include
former educational interpreters, teachers of deaf students, interpreter
trainers, and deaf recipients of interpreted educations. Read more about
this intriguing topic in chapter six, “Competencies of K–12
Educational Interpreters: What We Need versus What We Have”, and
order
Educational Interpreting.
 The
Midwest Book Review published a glowing review of
The American Sign Language Handshape Puzzle Book
by Linda Lascelle Hillebrand in its February 2005 edition. “The
American Sign Language Handshape Puzzle Book is a supplementary resource
for classroom or self-teaching American Sign Language,” writes reviewer
Betsy L. Hogan. “It consists of 54 different puzzles featuring 899 ASL signs,
to help students review and strengthen their signing vocabulary. Simple diagrams
of signs illustrate the words that belong in the crossword, word search, and four
other types of puzzles, all divided into three different skill levels. A
complete answer key for every puzzle is included in this clever and captivating
educational tool.” Created as a companion to
The American Sign Language
Handshape Dictionary by Richard A. Tennant and Marianne Gluszak Brown, this
workbook provides a variety of puzzles to
help you learn, strengthen, or review your signing vocabulary. Place your
order today.
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