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1 online resource (264 pages) |
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History of Disability |
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History of disability series.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Deaf culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Deaf -- Education -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Deaf -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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Deaf culture
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Deaf -- Education
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Deaf -- Social conditions
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814724026 |
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0814724027 |
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9780814724033 |
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0814724035 |
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