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Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II (History of Disability)
Signs of Resistance American Deaf Cultural History 1900 to World War II - History of Disability
Author: Susan Burch
During the nineteenth century, American schools for deaf education regarded sign language as the "natural language" of Deaf people, using it as the principal mode of instruction and communication. These schools inadvertently became the seedbeds of an emerging Deaf community and culture. But beginning in the 1880s, an oralist movement developed...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780814798911
ISBN-10: 0814798918
Publication Date: 11/1/2002
Pages: 240
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Publisher: NYU Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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