Words made flesh : nineteenth-century deaf education and the growth of deaf culture / R.A.R. Edwards.

  • Edwards, R. A. R.
Date:
[2012], ©2012
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New York : New York University Press, [2012], ©2012.

Physical description

vii, 255 pages ; 24 cm.

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc: a Yale man and a deaf man open a school and create a world -- Manual education: an American beginning -- Learning to be deaf: lessons from the residential school -- The deaf way: living a deaf life -- Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe: the first American oralists -- Languages of signs: methodical versus natural -- The flight over the Clark School: manualists and oralists confront deafness.

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    History of Medicine
    RD.6.AA8
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  • 9780814722435
  • 0814722431
  • 9780814724026
  • 0814724027
  • 9780814724033
  • 0814724035