Authors: Carol PADDEN, Tom Humphries, Carol Padden
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
"Inside Deaf Culture relates deaf people's search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self-description as a flourishing culture. Padden and Humphries show how the nineteenth-century schools for the deaf, with their denigration of sign language and their insistence on oralist teaching, shaped the lives of