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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 | |