Deaf Studies
Damned for Their Difference
The Cultural Construction of Deaf People as Disabled
First Edition
Until the recent recognition of Deaf culture and the legitimacy of signed languages, majority societies around the world have classified Deaf people as “disabled,” a term that separates all persons ...
Gaillard in Deaf America
A Portrait of the Deaf Community, 1917, Henri Gaillard
First Edition
In 1917, Henri Gaillard led a delegation of deaf French men to the United States for the centennial celebration of the American School for the Deaf (ASD). The oldest school for deaf students in America, ...
Deaf Peddler
Confessions of an Inside Man
First Edition
In airports and train stations it is not unusual for waiting passengers to be approached by a person who will hand out a brochure or trinket, then indicate that he or she is deaf and ask for payment, ...
For “Children Who Vary from the Normal Type”
First Edition
In his perceptive study of the education of disabled children during the 19th and early 20th centuries, Robert Osgood focuses upon the Boston school system as both typical and a national leader among ...
The Politics of Deafness
The Politics of Deafness embarks upon a post-modern examination of the search for identity in deafness and its relationship to the prevalent hearing culture that has marginalized Deaf people. Author ...
The Deaf Way
Perspectives from the International Conference on Deaf Culture
First Edition
The Deaf Way documents the vast scholarly and artistic endeavors that took place in July 1989 when more than 6,000 deaf people from around the world met at Gallaudet University to celebrate Deaf culture. ...
Dancing Without Music
Deafness in America
The Other Side of Silence
Sign Language and the Deaf Community in America
First Edition
Arden Neisser’s classic book on American Sign Language (ASL) and the Deaf community is again available, with a new prologue. The Other Side of Silence explores the Deaf community through telling interviews ...
Never the Twain Shall Meet
Bell, Gallaudet, and the Communications Debate
Throughout the last two centuries, a controversial question has plagued the field of education of the deaf: should sign language be used to communicate with and instruct deaf children? Never the Twain ...