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Acknowledgments | |
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In surdam memoriam: Karl Jaekel | |
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Contributors | |
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Prologue: Autobiography of Laurent Clerc | |
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"Scattered as we are and lost among the hearing": Life in the Hearing World | |
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On Planning a Deaf-Mute Commonwealth | |
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Coming to California | |
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What a Deaf Jewish Leader Expects of a Rabbi | |
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How to Write Like a Hearing Reporter | |
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CBS Hurt Deaf Children with "Caitlin's Story," | |
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Who Speaks for the Deaf Community? Not Who You Would Think! | |
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My Life on Paper | |
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Away from Invisibility, Toward Invincibility: Issues with Deaf Theatre Artists in America | |
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This Child Is Mine: Deaf Parents and Their Adopted Deaf Children | |
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"The noblest gift God has given to deaf people": American Sign Language and Its Literature | |
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The Preservation of the Sign Language | |
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From Student to Professional: A Personal Chronicle of Sign Language | |
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Black Signs: Whatever Happened to the Sign for "Cornbread"? | |
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Reflections of American Deaf Culture in Deaf Humor | |
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Folk Explanation in Language Survival | |
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Let's Return ASL to Deaf Ownership | |
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What Happens When Languages Come in Contact | |
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I've Had Enough of the I-Love-You Sign, Thanks | |
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Traditions: Hispanic, American, Deaf Culture: Which Takes Precedence in Trilingual Interpreter Training? | |
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Rathskellar: Some Oral-Traditional and Not-So-Traditional Characteristics of ASL Literature | |
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In Search of the Perfect Sign-Language Script: Insights into the Diverse Writing Styles of Deaf Playwrights | |
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"The medicine that swallowed the patient": Deaf Education | |
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The Associative Feature in the Education of the Deaf | |
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The Attitude of the Adult Deaf towards Pure Oralism | |
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The Fable of the Ass Who Was Taught to Whinny | |
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The Graduate | |
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The Deaf Adult's Point of View | |
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Black Deaf Students | |
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Who's Itching to Get into Mainstreaming? | |
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The Real Meaning of "Hearing Impaired" | |
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Do We Continue This Tragedy? | |
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A Taboo Exposed: Using ASL in the Classroom | |
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Deaf-centric Teaching: A Case Study in ASL-English Bilingualism | |
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"Impressed with the value of character": The Deaf Ethic | |
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Vagrancy among Deaf-Mutes | |
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Miss Martineau and Deaf-Mutes | |
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The habit of being prompt ... | |
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Finding Men for Jobs | |
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The Development of Postwar Employment | |
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A Review of the Little Paper Family for 1944-45 | |
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Place of the Adult Deaf in Society | |
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What Exactly Am I Supposed to Overcome? | |
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Thoughts on the Effects of Provisions for the Deaf | |
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'Til All Barriers Crumble and Fall: Agatha Tiegel's Presentation Day Speech in April 1893 | |
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Dummy Hoy: "Play Ball!" | |
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"Strengthening the spirit of clannishness": The Deaf Community | |
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Racism within the Deaf Community | |
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GLAD Publishes Position Paper on Cochlear Implants | |
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Reflections on The Deaf Way | |
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Can Deaf People Survive "deafness"? | |
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Cochlear Implants vs. Deaf Culture? | |
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Into Their Own Hands: The Deaf President Now Protest and Its Consequences | |
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Of Deaf-Mutes, the Strange, and the Modern Deaf Self | |
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The Hearing Agenda II: Eradicating the DEAF-WORLD | |
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Deaf Women Now: Establishing Our Niche | |
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Contemporary Native Deaf Experience: Overdue Smoke Rising | |
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Cochlear Implants and Deaf Identity | |
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Signing Off | |
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Further Reading | |
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Permissions | |
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Index | |