Words Made Flesh : Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture.

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Edwards, R. A. R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2012.
Colección:History of disability series.
Temas:
1800-1899
Deaf culture > United States > History > 19th century.
Deaf > Education > United States > History > 19th century.
Deaf > United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Culture sourde > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Personnes sourdes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Deaf culture
Deaf > Education
Deaf > Social conditions
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc: A Yale Man and a Deaf Man Open a School and Create a World; 2 Manual Education: An American Beginning; 3 Learning to Be Deaf: Lessons from the Residential School; 4 The Deaf Way: Living a Deaf Life; 5 Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe: The First American Oralists; 6 Languages of Signs: Methodical versus Natural; 7 The Fight over the Clarke School: Manualists and Oralists Confront Deafness; Conclusion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; About the Author.

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