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Access : multiple avenues for deaf people / Doreen DeLuca ... [et al.], editors.

Title
Access : multiple avenues for deaf people / Doreen DeLuca ... [et al.], editors.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors
DeLuca, Doreen.
Description
xix, 216 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"The companion to Signs and Voices: Deaf Culture, Identity, Language, and Arts, this volume presents an accomplished group of contributors who address the major technological, institutional, and societal advances in access for deaf people, as well as the remaining hurdles."--book jacket.
Subject
  • Deaf > Education > United States
  • Deaf > Means of communication > United States
  • Deaf > United States > Social conditions
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Building new ramps with hearing assistive technology / Maggie Casteel -- A conversation with Alfred Sonnenstrahl : focus on telecommunications -- Cochlear implants / Robert C. O'Reilly, Amanda J. Mangiardi, and H. Timothy Bunnell -- Civil rights on deaf education : working toward empowering deaf students and their parents / Jami N. Fisher and Philip J. Mattiacci -- Inclusion and the development of deaf identity / Michael Stinson -- Deaf, signing, and oral : a journey / Lisa Herbert -- A conversation with Grace Walker : focus on personal experiences with a Cochlear implant -- A conversation with Christy Hennessey : focus on the workplace -- A conversation with Tony Saccente : focus on HIV/AIDS counseling -- HIV/AIDS in the United States deaf community / Leila Monaghan -- DPN and civil rights / Gregory J. Hlibok.
ISBN
  • 9781563683930 (alk. paper)
  • 1563683938 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008011300