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Words Made Flesh : Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture.
During the early nineteenth century, schools for the deaf appeared in the United States for the first time. These schools were committed to the use of the sign language to educate deaf students. Manual education made the growth of the deaf community possible, for it gathered deaf people together in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | History of disability series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | During the early nineteenth century, schools for the deaf appeared in the United States for the first time. These schools were committed to the use of the sign language to educate deaf students. Manual education made the growth of the deaf community possible, for it gathered deaf people together in sizable numbers for the first time in American history. It also fueled the emergence of Deaf culture, as the schools became agents of cultural transformations. . Just as the Deaf community began to be recognized as a minority culture, in the 1850s, a powerful movement arose to undo it, namely. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (264 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814724026 0814724027 9780814724033 0814724035 |