Cultural and language diversity and the deaf experience
Cultural and language diversity and the deaf experience
editor, Ila Parasnis.
- 1st pbk. ed.
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2007
- xiv, 306 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On interpreting the deaf experience within the context of cultural and language diversity / Living with two languages and two cultures / Perspectives from the history and the politics of bilingualism and bilingual education in the United States / Cognitive and language development of bilingual children / Ila Parasnis -- Francois Grosjean -- Kenji Hakuta, Elizabeth Feldman Mostafapour -- Josiane F. Hamers. Part I. Bilingualism-biculturalism and the deaf experience: an overview. From the cultural to the bicultural: the modern deaf community / Early bilingual lives of deaf children / Communication experiences of deaf people: an ethnographic account / Marginality, biculturalism, and social identity of deaf people / Attitudes of the deaf community toward political activism / Cultural and language diversity in the curriculum: toward reflective practice / Minority empowerment and the education of deaf people / Social assimilation of deaf high school students: the role of school environment / Carol A. Padden -- Carol A. Padden -- Susan B. Foster -- R. Greg Emerton -- Gerald C. Bateman -- Bonnie Meath-Lang -- Joan B. Stone -- Thomas K. Holcomb. Part II. Psychosocial, cognitive, and language experiences of deaf people. Growing up deaf in deaf families: two different experiences / Another new birth: reflections of a deaf native signer / Raising deaf children in hearing society: struggles and challenges for deaf native ASL signers / In search of self: experiences of a postlingually deaf African-American / Living in a bilingual-bicultural family / On being both hearing and deaf: my bilingual-bicultural experience / Susan C. Searls, David R. Johnston -- Patrick A. Graybill -- Gary E. Mowl -- Dianne K. Brooks -- Lynn Finton -- Patricia Mudgett-DeCaro. Part III. The Deaf experience: personal reflections.
0521645654 (pbk.) 9780521645652 (pbk.)
Deaf--Social conditions.--United States
Linguistic minorities--United States.
Multiculturalism--United States.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On interpreting the deaf experience within the context of cultural and language diversity / Living with two languages and two cultures / Perspectives from the history and the politics of bilingualism and bilingual education in the United States / Cognitive and language development of bilingual children / Ila Parasnis -- Francois Grosjean -- Kenji Hakuta, Elizabeth Feldman Mostafapour -- Josiane F. Hamers. Part I. Bilingualism-biculturalism and the deaf experience: an overview. From the cultural to the bicultural: the modern deaf community / Early bilingual lives of deaf children / Communication experiences of deaf people: an ethnographic account / Marginality, biculturalism, and social identity of deaf people / Attitudes of the deaf community toward political activism / Cultural and language diversity in the curriculum: toward reflective practice / Minority empowerment and the education of deaf people / Social assimilation of deaf high school students: the role of school environment / Carol A. Padden -- Carol A. Padden -- Susan B. Foster -- R. Greg Emerton -- Gerald C. Bateman -- Bonnie Meath-Lang -- Joan B. Stone -- Thomas K. Holcomb. Part II. Psychosocial, cognitive, and language experiences of deaf people. Growing up deaf in deaf families: two different experiences / Another new birth: reflections of a deaf native signer / Raising deaf children in hearing society: struggles and challenges for deaf native ASL signers / In search of self: experiences of a postlingually deaf African-American / Living in a bilingual-bicultural family / On being both hearing and deaf: my bilingual-bicultural experience / Susan C. Searls, David R. Johnston -- Patrick A. Graybill -- Gary E. Mowl -- Dianne K. Brooks -- Lynn Finton -- Patricia Mudgett-DeCaro. Part III. The Deaf experience: personal reflections.
0521645654 (pbk.) 9780521645652 (pbk.)
Deaf--Social conditions.--United States
Linguistic minorities--United States.
Multiculturalism--United States.