Gallaudet University Press imprint: 71 books

Shifting the Dialog, Shifting the Culture

Pathways to Successful Postsecondary Outcomes for Deaf Individuals

by Carrie Lou Garberoglio, Stephanie W. Cawthon
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017

In this volume, Stephanie W. Cawthon and Carrie Lou Garberoglio discuss the individual and systemic factors that both facilitate and inhibit the attainment of postsecondary education, training, and career goals for deaf individuals. Real-life examples and current research are combined in this consideration...

Show of Hands

A Natural History of Sign Language

by David F. Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011

Most scholarly speculation on the origin of human language has centered around speech. However, the growing understanding of sign languages on human development has transformed the debate on language evolution. David F. Armstrong’s new book Show of Hands: A Natural History of Sign Language casts...

Tell Me How It Reads

Tutoring Deaf and Hearing Students in the Writing Center

by Rebecca Day Babcock
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012

Deaf students are attending mainstream postsecondary institutions in increasing numbers, raising the stakes for the complicated and multifaceted task of tutoring deaf students at these schools. Common tutoring practices used with hearing students do not necessarily work for deaf people. Rebecca Day...

Silent Life and Silent Language

The Inner Life of a Mute in an Institution for the Deaf

by Kate M. Farlow
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018

Silent Life and Silent Language presents a fictionalized account of life at a Midwestern residential school for deaf students in the years following the Civil War. Based on the experiences of the author, who became deaf at the age of nine and entered a residential school when she was twelve, this...

Interpreter Education in the Digital Age

Innovation, Access, and Change

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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015

This collection brings together innovative research and approaches for blended learning using digital technology in interpreter education for signed and spoken languages. Volume editors Suzanne Ehrlich and Jemina Napier call upon the expertise of 21 experts, including themselves, to report on the...

It’s a Small World

International Deaf Spaces and Encounters

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015

It’s a Small World explores the fascinating and, at times, controversial concept of DEAF-SAME (“I am deaf, you are deaf, and so we are the same”) and its influence on deaf spaces locally and globally. The editors and contributors focus on national and international encounters (e.g., conferences,...

Change and Promise

Bilingual Deaf Education and Deaf Culture in Latin America

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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016

Within the past few decades, there has been great progress in deaf education in Latin America and growth in the empowerment of their Deaf communities. However, there is little awareness outside that region of these successes. For the first time, this book provides access, in English, to scholarly...

On the Beat of Truth

A Hearing Daughter’s Stories of Her Black Deaf Parents

by Maxine Childress Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013

As an African American woman born in 1943, Maxine Childress Brown possessed a unique vantage point to witness the transformative events in her parents’ lives. Both came from the South -- her father, Herbert Childress, from Nashville, TN, and her mother, Thomasina Brown, from Concord, NC. The oldest...

Sounds Like Home

Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South

by Mary Herring Wright
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999

Mary Herring Wright’s memoir adds an important dimension to the current literature in that it is a story by and about an African American deaf child. The author recounts her experiences growing up as a deaf person in Iron Mine, North Carolina, from the 1920s through the 1940s. Her story is unique...

Pictures in the Air

The Story of the National Theatre of the Deaf

by Stephen C. Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009

Now available in paperback; ISBN 1-56368-140-4

Managing Their Own Affairs

The Australian Deaf Community in the 1920s and 1930s

by Breda Carty
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018

Managing Their Own Affairs explores how Deaf organizations and institutions were forged in Australia during the early 20th century. During this period, deaf people challenged the authority of the dominant welfare organizations, or Deaf Societies, which were largely controlled by hearing people and...

In Our Own Hands

Essays in Deaf History, 1780–1970

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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016

This collection of new research examines the development of deaf people’s autonomy and citizenship discourses as they sought access to full citizenship rights in local and national settings. Covering the period of 1780–1970, the essays in this collection explore deaf peoples’ claims to autonomy...

Edmund Booth

Deaf Pioneer

by Harry G. Lang
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009

Edmund Booth was born in 1810 and died in 1905, and during the 94 years of his life, he epitomized virtually everything that characterized an American legend of that century. In his prime, Booth stood 6 feet, 3 inches tall, weighed in at 210 pounds, and wore a long, full beard. He taught school in...

International Sign

Linguistic, Usage, and Status Issues

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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016

International Sign (IS) is widely used among deaf people and interpreters at international events, but what exactly is it, what are its linguistic features, where does its lexicon come from, and how is it used at interpreted events? This groundbreaking collection is the first volume to provide answers...
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