Research Catalog

Title

The deaf community in America : history in the making / Melvia M. Nomeland and Ronald E. Nomeland ; foreword by Trudy Suggs.

Author

Nomeland, Melvia M., 1940-

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2012.

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Additional Authors

Nomeland, Ronald E., 1936-

Description

vii, 232 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This volume tracks the changes in education and the social world of deaf people through the years. Topics covered include the attitudes toward the deaf in Europe and America, the evolution of communication and language and increasing influence of education. Of particular interest is the way in which deafness has been increasingly humanized, rather than medicalized or pathologized"--Provided by publisher.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• Geschichte
• Social Conditions
• Sign Language
• Deafness > psychology
• Deafness > history
• Deaf > United States > History
• Deaf > Education > United States
• Deaf culture > United States
• American Sign Language
• United States

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Earliest known history of deaf people -- Origins of deaf learning in America -- Historical issues in education -- Life in deaf communities -- Recognition of ASL as a language -- Expansion of visual languages -- Emergence of colorful communication -- Enlightenment of independence -- Personalities through the years.

ISBN

• 9780786463978 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 078646397X (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011044165

OCLC

• 759594320
• SCSB-12336579

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library