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Deaf in America : voices from a culture / Carol Padden, Tom Humphries.

Title
  1. Deaf in America : voices from a culture / Carol Padden, Tom Humphries.
Published by
  1. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988.
Author
  1. Padden, Carol.

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Additional authors
  1. Humphries, Tom (Tom L.)
Description
  1. vii, 134 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. Refusing to accept the limitations others have placed on the deaf, the authors--themselves deaf--argue for a deaf culture, one united by and expressed through the American Sign Language.
Subject
  1. Sign Language
  2. Deafness
  3. Deafness > history
  4. Deaf > United States
  5. Deafness > United States
  6. Persons With Hearing Impairments
  7. United States
Genre/Form
  1. Popular Work
Contents
  1. Learning to be deaf -- Images of being -- A different center -- Living in others' world -- A changing consciousness -- The meaning of sound -- Historically created lives.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. [125]-129.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain