Cultural and Language Diversity and the Deaf Experience

Name: Cultural and Language Diversity and the Deaf Experience
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ISBN: 9780521645652

ISBN-10: 0521645654

ISBN-13: 9780521645652

Edition: 1998

Authors: Ila Parasnis

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This book explores the notion that deaf people are members of a bilingual-bicultural minority group, rather than individuals with an audiological disability. Their experiences often overlap with those of hearing minority group members.

Book details

List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/28/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 324
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English




Cultural and Language Diversity: An Overview



On interpreting the deaf experience within the context of cultural and language diverstiy




Living with two languages and two cultures




Perspectives from the history and the politics of bilingualism and bilingual education in the United States




Cognitive and language development of bilingual children




Cultural and Language Diversity: Impact on the Deaf Experience



From the cultural to the bicultural: the modern deaf community




Early bilingual lives of deaf children




Communication experiences of deaf people: an ethnographic account




Marginality, biculturalism and social identity of deaf people




Attitudes of the deaf community toward political activism




Cultural and language diversity in the curriculum: toward reflective practice




Minority empowerment and the education of deaf people




Social assimilation of deaf High School students: the role of school environment




Cultural and Language Diversity: Reflections on the Deaf Experience



Growing up deaf in deaf families: two different experiences




Another new birth: reflections of a deaf native singer




Raising deaf children in a hearing society: struggles and challenges for deaf signers




In search of self: experiences of a post-lingually deaf African-American




Living in a bilingual-bicultural family




On being both hearing and deaf: my bilingual-bicultural Patricia