Everyone here spoke sign language : hereditary deafness on Martha's Vineyard / Nora Ellen Groce.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [1985]Copyright date: ©1985Description: x, 169 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0674270401
- 9780674270404
- 362.4209744
- HV2561.M49 G76 1985
Contents:
"They were just like everyone else" -- The history of Martha's Vineyard -- The origins of vineyard deafness -- The genetics of vineyard deafness -- The island adaptation to deafness -- Growing up deaf on the vineyard -- Deafness in historical perspective -- "Those people weren't handicapped" -- Appendix A. Oral and written sources -- Appendix B. Perceived causes of vineyard deafness.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 362.4209744 GRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A311621B |
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| 362.420973 JAN Deaf empowerment : emergence, struggle, and rhetoric / | 362.420973 PAD Deaf in America : voices from a culture / | 362.420973 PAD Deaf in America : voices from a culture / | 362.4209744 GRO Everyone here spoke sign language : hereditary deafness on Martha's Vineyard / | 362.423 PRE Mother father deaf : living between sound and silence / | 362.4283 CHA Challenging sign language teachers and interpreters : the Reflector revisited / | 362.4283 INT International perspectives on sign language interpreter education / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-164) and index.
"They were just like everyone else" -- The history of Martha's Vineyard -- The origins of vineyard deafness -- The genetics of vineyard deafness -- The island adaptation to deafness -- Growing up deaf on the vineyard -- Deafness in historical perspective -- "Those people weren't handicapped" -- Appendix A. Oral and written sources -- Appendix B. Perceived causes of vineyard deafness.
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