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The people who spell : the last students from the Mexican National School For The Deaf /

The Escuela Nacional para Sordomudos (ENS), translated as the Mexican National School for the Deaf, opened its doors in the 1860s as part of the republic's intention to educate its deaf people. The ENS did not use Lengua de Señas Mexicana (LSM), Mexico's native sign language, for instruct...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ramsey, Claire L. (Claire Louise)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, ©2011.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Somos sordos Mexicanos : we are deaf Mexicans
  • The research in Mexico City
  • Deaf lives and research on deaf lives in Mexico
  • The history of deaf education in Mexico and the ENS signers
  • Childhood and school years
  • The differing lives of deaf women and men
  • Social and married lives
  • The collective remembering of the ENS signers.