Words made flesh : : nineteenth-century deaf education and the growth of deaf culture / / R.A.R. Edwards.
During the early nineteenth century, schools for the deaf appeared in the United States for the first time. These schools were committed to the use of the sign language to educate deaf students. Manual education made the growth of the deaf community possible, for it gathered deaf people together in...
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Superior document: | History of disability |
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Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | History of disability series.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc: a Yale man and a deaf man open a school and create a world
- Manual education: an American beginning
- Learning to be deaf: lessons from the residential school
- The deaf way: living a deaf life
- Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe: the first American oralists
- Languages of signs: methodical versus natural.