Gallaudet University Press: 71 books
Laurent Clerc
The Story of His Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
Laurent Clerc won lasting renown as the deaf teacher who helped Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet establish schools to educate deaf Americans in the 19th century. Now, his character as a young boy growing up in Paris has been captured in the novel Laurent Clerc.
In his own voice, Clerc vividly relates...
My Life of Language
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Paul W. Ogden has dedicated his life to educating young deaf and hard of hearing people and raising awareness of what it means to be deaf in a hearing world. He has taught and mentored a generation of teachers, and his classic volume, The Silent Garden, has served as a guide for parents and educators...
by Jemina Napier
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This ground-breaking work, originally published 15 years ago, continues to serve as the primary reference on the theories of omission potential and translational contact in sign language interpreting. In the book, noted scholar Jemina Napier explores the linguistic coping strategies of interpreters...
Amy Signs
A Mother, Her Deaf Daughter, and Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
“Thirty-seven years ago, I vowed to write a truthful book about raising a deaf child.” Rebecca Willman Gernon followed through on her promise with her deaf daughter Amy Willman in this extraordinary new narrative. Many stories have been told about a parent’s struggle to help her deaf child succeed...
Signed Language Interpretation and Translation Research
Selected Papers from the First International Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
This volume brings together the best research presented at the first International Symposium on Signed Language Interpreting and Translation Research. Editors Brenda Nicodemus and Keith Cagle have gathered an international group of contributors who are recognized leaders in signed language interpreter...
Ears, Eyes, and Hands
Reflections on Language, Literacy, and Linguistics
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
Ears, Eyes, and Hands presents the author’s reflections on language, literacy, and linguistics that have been shaped by her deafness and by her work as an educator. In short, engaging narratives, Deborah L. Wolter exposes deeply entrenched attitudes and stereotypes regarding language, bringing to...
by Debbie Slier
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Charming, full-color photographs of basic animals plus illustrations of their corresponding signs offer children ages 1 to 4 a fun way to learn their first signs and vocabulary words. Constructed of sturdy cardboard with a protective finish on each page, this hearty book will withstand the hard use...
by Patricia Bellan Gillen
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
This full-color picture book helps children learn their numbers in sign language. Each two-page spread of this delightfully illustrated book has the appropriate number of things or creatures for the numbers 0 through 20. The signs for the numbers 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, and 100 are also included....
Fighting in the Shadows
Untold Stories of Deaf People in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
This visually rich volume presents Harry G. Lang’s groundbreaking study of deaf people’s experiences in the Civil War. Based on meticulous archival research, Fighting in the Shadows reveals the stories of deaf soldiers and civilians who lived through this transformative period in American history....
The Art of Being Deaf
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Concerned about aspects of her romantic relationships, Donna McDonald consulted with a psychologist who asked, “Your hearing loss must have had a big impact on you?” At age 45, with a successful career in social work policy, McDonald took umbrage at the question. Then, she realized that she never...
Deaf-Blind Reality
Living the Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Most stories about disabled people are written for the sake of being inspirational. These stories tend to focus on some achievement, such as sports or academics, but rarely do they give a true and complete view of the challenges individuals must deal with on a daily basis. For example: How does a...
Deaf Space in Adamorobe
An Ethnographic Study in a Village in Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Shared signing communities consist of a relatively high number of hereditarily deaf people living together with hearing people in relative isolation. In the United States, Martha’s Vineyard gained mythical fame as a paradise for deaf people where everyone signed up until the 19th century. That community...
Blind Rage
Letters to Helen Keller
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
As a young blind girl, Georgina Kleege repeatedly heard the refrain, “Why can’t you be more like Helen Keller?” Kleege’s resentment culminates in her book Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller, an ingenious examination of the life of this renowned international figure using 21st-century sensibilities....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
In Deaf life, the personal narrative holds sway because most Deaf individuals recall their formative years as solitary struggles to understand and to be understood. Few deaf people in the past related their stories in written form, relying instead on a different kind of “oral” tradition, that...