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.