TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parasnis,Ila
TI  - Cultural and language diversity and the deaf experience
SN  - 0521645654 (pbk.)
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Cambridge, New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Deaf
KW  - United States
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Linguistic minorities
KW  - Multiculturalism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I. Bilingualism-biculturalism and the deaf experience: an overview; On interpreting the deaf experience within the context of cultural and language diversity; Ila Parasnis --; Living with two languages and two cultures; Francois Grosjean --; Perspectives from the history and the politics of bilingualism and bilingual education in the United States; Kenji Hakuta, Elizabeth Feldman Mostafapour --; Cognitive and language development of bilingual children; Josiane F. Hamers; Part II. Psychosocial, cognitive, and language experiences of deaf people; From the cultural to the bicultural: the modern deaf community; Carol A. Padden --; Early bilingual lives of deaf children; Carol A. Padden --; Communication experiences of deaf people: an ethnographic account; Susan B. Foster --; Marginality, biculturalism, and social identity of deaf people; R. Greg Emerton --; Attitudes of the deaf community toward political activism; Gerald C. Bateman --; Cultural and language diversity in the curriculum: toward reflective practice; Bonnie Meath-Lang --; Minority empowerment and the education of deaf people; Joan B. Stone --; Social assimilation of deaf high school students: the role of school environment; Thomas K. Holcomb; Part III. The Deaf experience: personal reflections; Growing up deaf in deaf families: two different experiences; Susan C. Searls, David R. Johnston --; Another new birth: reflections of a deaf native signer; Patrick A. Graybill --; Raising deaf children in hearing society: struggles and challenges for deaf native ASL signers; Gary E. Mowl --; In search of self: experiences of a postlingually deaf African-American; Dianne K. Brooks --; Living in a bilingual-bicultural family; Lynn Finton --; On being both hearing and deaf: my bilingual-bicultural experience; Patricia Mudgett-DeCaro
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