For Hearing People Only: Answers to Some of the Most Commonly Asked Questions about the Deaf Community, Its Culture, and the "Deaf Reality"Written especially for laypeople who are curious about deaf people and would like to separate truth from stereotype, fact from misconception, reality from myth. |
Contents
Introduction | 21 |
Chapter 1 | 27 |
Chapter 2 Is there one sign language for all countries? | 37 |
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Common terms and phrases
Abbé acceptable Alexander Graham Bell American Sign Language attitude become deaf bilingual born deaf Braille captioning Chapter children of Deaf classroom cochlear implant Cogswell congenitally deaf deaf adults deaf child deaf children Deaf club Deaf community Deaf culture deaf drivers deaf education deaf kids deaf parents Deaf people's deaf person deaf students Deaf teacher deaf-and-dumb dumb early-deafened Edward Miner Gallaudet example fingerspelling French Sign Language Gallaudet University Gallaudet University Press Gestuno grammatical guage hard-of-hearing Harlan Lane Hartford hearing aid hearing loss Hearing world implants interpreters late-deafened Laurent Clerc learn ASL learn sign linguistic mainstreaming manually coded English mute National native ASL users native sign Navajo never normal NTID number of deaf oral oralists peddlers problem programs questions readers residential schools Signed English Signers skills sounds speak speechreading talk teach tion understand visual voice wear what's William Stokoe words