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The Deaf History Reader.

Van Cleve, John Vickrey.

The Deaf History Reader. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (226 pages)

Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1. Genesis of a Community: The American Deaf Experience in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 2. Hearing with the Eye: The Rise of Deaf Education in the United States -- 3. Origins of the American Deaf-World: Assimilating and Differentiating Societies and Their Relation to Genetic Patterning -- 4. Mary Ann Walworth Booth -- 5. A Tale of Two Schools: The Indiana Institution and the Evansville Day School, 1879-1912 -- 6. The Academic Integration of Deaf Children: A Historical Perspective -- 7. Taking Stock: Alexander Graham Bell and Eugenics, 1883-1922 -- 8. Deaf Autonomy and Deaf Dependence: The Early Years of the Pennsylvania Society for the Advancement of the Deaf -- 9. The Chicago Mission for the Deaf -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.

This volume presents an assembly of essays that together offer a remarkably vivid depiction of the varied Deaf experience in America.

9781563684036


Deaf--United States--History.


Electronic books.

HV2530

305.90820973090302

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