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Pages: 561
Authors: Harlan Lane
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-04 - Publisher: Vintage

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The authoritative statement on the deaf, their education, and their struggle against prejudice.
EVERYONE HERE SPOKE SIGN LANGUAGE
Language: en
Pages: 184
Authors: Nora Ellen GROCE
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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From the seventeenth century to the early years of the twentieth, the population of Martha’s Vineyard manifested an extremely high rate of profound hereditary
Seeing Voices
Language: en
Pages: 247
Authors: Oliver Sacks
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-04 - Publisher: Vintage Canada

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Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology,
The Mask of Benevolence
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Harlan L. Lane
Categories: Deaf
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Vintage

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A look at the gulf that separates the deaf minority from the hearing world, this book sheds light on the mistreatment of the deaf community by a hearing establi
Song Without Words
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Gerald Shea
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-26 - Publisher: Da Capo Press

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Reveals how the author discovered at the age of thirty-four that he had been partially deaf since childhood and shares how he compensated through his amazing ab