Deaf in America : voices from a culture /

Padden, Carol,

Deaf in America : voices from a culture / Voices from a culture Carol Padden, Tom Humphries. - vii, 134 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-129) and index.

Introduction -- Learning to Be Deaf -- Images of Being -- A Different Center -- Living in Others' World -- A Changing Consciousness -- The Meaning of Sound -- Historically Created Lives. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Refusing to accept the limitations others have placed on the deaf, the authors--themselves deaf--argue for a deaf culture, one united by and expressed through the American Sign Language.

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Deaf--United States
Deafness.

HV2545 / .P33 1988

362.420973

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