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 -- The flight over the Clark School: manualists and oralists confront deafness.
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Edwards, R. A. R.
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Words made flesh [electronic resource] : nineteenth-century deaf education and the growth of deaf culture / R.A.R. Edwards.