Gallaudet University Press: 71 books
A Mighty Change
An Anthology of Deaf American Writing, 1816 - 1864
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Gallaudet University Press recently inaugurated a new series, Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies, with the mission of returning to print historically significant writings on Deaf culture. In this second publication in the series, Christopher Krentz has gathered original writings and speeches by deaf...
Teaching from the Heart and Soul
The Robert F. Panara Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
The Sixth Volume in the Deaf Lives Series
Robert F. Panara lost his hearing from spinal meningitis in 1931 at the age of ten. However, he could read and write, and with his friends’ help, Bob (as he was known), made it through high school. His new solitude created a new passion – reading,...
Deaf in DC
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
In his first memoir, Madan Vasishta described being a deaf boy in his homeland India, where “deaf” meant someone who is not human. After rising from herding cattle to being a respected photographer in Delhi, his first memoir concluded with his acceptance at Gallaudet College far away in America....
Mrs. Sigourney of Hartford
Poems and Prose on the Early American Deaf Community
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Lydia Huntley was born in 1791 in Norwich, CT, the only child of a poor Revolutionary war veteran. But her father’s employer, a wealthy widow, gave young Lydia the run of her library and later sent her for visits to Hartford, CT. After teaching at her own school for several years in Norwich, Lydia...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
Inspired by the conference “Deaf People in Hitler’s Europe, 1933–1945,” hosted jointly by Gallaudet University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1998, this extraordinary collection, organized into three parts, integrates key presentations and important postconference research.
Henry...
Speechreading
A Way To Improve Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
"This book is a must for your office, for your clients, and for all public libraries." --Feedback "Unlike other consumer-oriented books on speechreading, this one not only focuses on practice exercises, but it also informs about the speechreading process and strategies to compensate...
Mickey’s Harvest
A Novel of a Deaf Boy’s Checkered Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Howard L. Terry wrote a novel between 1917 and 1922, which he donated to the Gallaudet University Archives in 1951. There it rested until a resurgence of interest in Deaf literature led to its recent rediscovery. Mickey’s Harvest: A Novel of a Deaf Boy’s Checkered Life recounts the rollicking...
Deaf Epistemologies, Identity, and Learning
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Goedele A. M. De Clerck presents cross-cultural comparative research that examines and documents where deaf flourishing occurs and how it can be advanced. She spotlights collective and dynamic resources of knowledge and learning; the coexistence of lived differences; social, linguistic, cultural,...
Mental Health Services for Deaf People
Treatment Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
The World Congress on Mental Health and Deafness first met at Gallaudet University in October 1998, and it has convened five more times in the succeeding years. This volume collects the very best research presented at the Fifth World Congress, which took place in Monterrey, Mexico, in 2012. The eighteen...
Alone in the Mainstream
A Deaf Woman Remembers Public School
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
When Gina Oliva first went to school in 1955, she didn’t know that she was “different.” If the kindergarten teacher played a tune on the piano to signal the next exercise, Oliva didn’t react because she couldn’t hear the music. So began her journey as a “solitary,” her term for being...
Outcasts and Angels
The New Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
In 1976, Trent Batson and Eugene Bergman released their classic Angels and Outcasts: An Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature. In it, they featured works from the 19th and 20th centuries by well-known authors such as Charles Dickens and Eudora Welty. They also presented less-well-known deaf authors,...
Deaf Heritage
A Narrative History of Deaf America
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Now, Jack R. Gannon’s original groundbreaking volume on Deaf history and culture is available once again. In Deaf Heritage: A Narrative History of Deaf America, Gannon brought together for the first time the story of the Deaf experience in America from a Deaf perspective. Recognizing the need to...
by William B. Swett
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
In Adventures of a Deaf-Mute, Deaf New Englander William B. Swett recounts his adventures in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the late 1860s. Given to us in short, energetic episodes, Swett tells daring stories of narrow escapes from death and other perilous experiences during his time as a...
Gaillard in Deaf America
A Portrait of the Deaf Community, 1917, Henri Gaillard
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
The Third Volume in the Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies Series In 1917, Henri Gaillard led a delegation of deaf French men to the United States for the centennial celebration of the American School for the Deaf (ASD). The oldest school for deaf students in America, ASD had been cofounded by renowned...