The New Disability History

The New Disability History
Author: Paul K. Longmore
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2001-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0814785638

A glimpse into the struggle of the disabled for identity and society's perception of the disabled traces the disabled's fight for rights from the antebellum era to present controversies over access.

Signs of Resistance

Signs of Resistance
Author: Susan Burch
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2004-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0814798942

The author demonstrates that in 19th and 20th centuries and contrary to popular belief, the Deaf community defended its use of sign language as a distinctive form of communication, thus forming a collective Deaf consciousness, identity, and political organization.

Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language

Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language
Author: Ceil Lucas
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2001
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781563681134

Linguists Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, Clayton Valli and a host of other researchers have taken the techniques used to study the regional variations in speech (such as saying "hwhich" for "which") and have applied them to American Sign Language. Discover how the same driving social factors affect signs in different regions in Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language.

Adult Subject Catalog

Adult Subject Catalog
Author: Orange County Public Library (Calif.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 914
Release: 1971
Genre: Library catalogs
ISBN: