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View Our Catalog | Deaf People Around the World
From CHOICE While it is heartening to find that there is a greatly increased global awareness of the needs of deaf people, it is disheartening to discover that the oralist/sign language debate continues to the detriment of deaf communities worldwide. Deaf people persist in developing their own sign languages no matter what spoken languages the larger societies impose upon them. Although the technology of cochlear implants has strengthened the oralist and medical perspectives on hearing impairments, there is also increasing recognition of sign languages as valid languages. This book provides insight into the enormously complicated cultural and linguistic challenges (more than 2000 spoken languages in Africa alone) facing children with hearing impairments regardless of the communication method utilized in education. Gallaudet University remains the only university for deaf students in the world. The “Father of Deaf Education in Africa,” Andrew Foster, was the first African American to graduate from Gallaudet. He established 31 schools in 17 different African countries, thereby establishing the importance of higher education for deaf people everywhere. Foster introduced ASL and English-based signs and he left behind educated deaf Africans to teach in these schools. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries. Donald F. Moores is Professor, Department of Exceptional Student and Deaf Education, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL. Margery S. Miller is Associate Dean, Enrollment Management, at Gallaudet University, Washington, DC. ISBN 1-56368-410-1, 978-1-56368-410-4, 7 x 10 casebound, 416 pages, photographs, figures, tables, references, index $85.00s
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