Deaf Culture and Linguistics
These products are designed for teachers and TAFE students and focus on deaf culture and history; and on advanced Auslan linguistics.
Damned for Their Difference - The Cultural Construction of Deaf People as Disabled
This Australian book provides a Sociological understanding of disabling practices that combines history and biography with the study of social structures and processes. This book will help you gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be deaf, and how Deaf people are treated differently and marginalised by others.
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Deaf Like Me
Written by the uncle and father of a little girl who happens to be deaf, this story sensitively weaves reality and learning in with a fairly simple account of coming to terms with deafness, and the family´s fight to teach their deaf daughter to speak.
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Open Your Eyes
This book shows how culture contributes vital insights on issues of identity, language and power; and ultimately challenges our culture´s obsession with normalcy.
This is an American book. The editor, Professor Dirksen Bauman is a professor of Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University. While the book is written from the American perspective it is just as applicable to Australian Deaf Culture as it is American.
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Seeing Voices - Oliver Sacks
With Seeing Voices, Dr. Sacks launches on a journey into the world of the deaf, which he explores with passion and insight.
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A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family
In this remarkable memoir, Walker recreates the pain and the joy of growing up between two worlds: her deaf parents´ loving but silent home, and the often confusing world she encountered outside those walls, and of which she was inevitably a part.
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Constructing Deafness
This book examines how deafness and deaf people are viewed within education, linguists, social political, as well as presented within film and fiction. It examines the perspective of deaf people themselves and current issues within a historical perspective. How are recent developments challenging established ideologies?
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When the Mind Hears - A History of the Deaf
Traces the history of the deaf through the eyes of Laurent Clerc, a deaf Frenchman who was the intellectual leader of the deaf community in France, then in America.
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Damned for Their Difference - The Cultural Construction of Deaf People as Disabled
This Australian book provides a Sociological understanding of disabling practices that combines history and biography with the study of social structures and processes. This book will help you gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be deaf, and how Deaf people are treated differently and marginalised by others.
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Hearing the Need
Hearing the Need is an account of the momentous changes that have occurred in the lives of deaf and hearing impaired Australians since the 1950s. It records the achievements of an Australian community in the area of education, technological developments and legal rights.
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Australian Sign Language: An introduction to sign language linguistics
This book is a comprehensive introduction to the linguistics of Auslan. It explores each key aspect of the structure of Auslan, providing an overview to grammar, phonology, morphology, lexicon, semantics and discourse.
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