Many Ways to Be Deaf

by Monaghan, Leila Frances; Nakamura, Karen; Schmaling, Contanze; Turner, Graham H.

• ISBN13: 9781563681356
• ISBN10: 1563681358
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Gallaudet Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
A World's Eye View: Deaf Cultures in Global Perspective	1	(24)
Leila Monaghan
British Manual Alphabets in the Education of Deaf People Since the 17th Century	25	(24)
Rachel Sutton-Spence
Austria's Hidden Conflict: Hearing Culture Versus Deaf Culture	49	(18)
Franz Dotter
Ingeborg Okorn
Pedagogical Issues in Swedish Deaf Education	67	(22)
Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta
Lars-Åke Domfors
Romance and Reality: Sociolinguistic Similarities and Differences between Swiss German Sign Language and Rhaeto-Romansh	89	(25)
Penny Boyes Braem
Benno Caramore
Roland Hermann
Patricia Shores Hermann
The Dilemma of the Hard of Hearing within the U.S. Deaf Community	114	(27)
Donald A. Grushkin
Sociolinguistic Dynamics in American Deaf Communities: Peer Groups Versus Families	141	(12)
Ceil Lucas
Susan Schatz
School Language and Shifts in Irish Deaf Identity	153	(20)
Barbara LeMaster
Surdos Venceremos: The Rise of the Brazilian Deaf Community	173	(21)
Norine Berenz
South African Sign Language: Changing Policies and Practice	194	(17)
Debra Aarons
Louise Reynolds
U-Turns, Deaf Shock, and the Hard of Hearing: Japanese Deaf Identities at the Borderlands	211	(19)
Karen Nakamura
The Chiying School of Taiwan: A Foreigner's Perspective	230	(19)
Jean Ann
The Changing World of the Russian Deaf Community	249	(11)
Michael Pursglove
Anna Komarova
New Ways to Be Deaf in Nicaragua: Changes in Language, Personhood, and Community	260	(23)
Richard J. Sengbas
Sign Languages and Deaf Identities in Thailand and Viet Nam	283	(19)
James Woodward
A for Apple: The Impact of Western Education and ASL on the Deaf Community in Kano State, Northern Nigeria	302	(9)
Constanze Schmaling
Contributors	311	(2)
Index	313