When the Mind Hears
Author: Harlan Lane
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-08-04
Total Pages: 561
ISBN-13: 0307874710
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The authoritative statement on the deaf, their education, and their struggle against prejudice.
Author: Harlan Lane
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-08-04
Total Pages: 561
ISBN-13: 0307874710
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The authoritative statement on the deaf, their education, and their struggle against prejudice.
Author: Oliver Sacks
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Published: 2011-03-04
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0307365751
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect — a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well. Seeing Voices is, as Studs Terkel has written, "an exquisite, as well as revelatory, work."
Author: Teri James Bellis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2003-07-22
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780743428644
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the first book on the subject for lay readers, an esteemed Auditory Processing Disorder expert--and sufferer--gives people the tools they need to spot and fight it.
Author: Gerald Shea
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2013-02-26
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0306821931
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At age 34, Shea discovered that he had been deaf since childhood despite somehow maintaining a prestigious legal career.
Author: Carol A. Padden
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1990-09-01
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 0674283171
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written by authors who are themselves Deaf, this unique book illuminates the life and culture of Deaf people from the inside, through their everyday talk, their shared myths, their art and performances, and the lessons they teach one another. Carol Padden and Tom Humphries employ the capitalized "Deaf" to refer to deaf people who share a natural language—American Sign Language (ASL—and a complex culture, historically created and actively transmitted across generations. Signed languages have traditionally been considered to be simply sets of gestures rather than natural languages. This mistaken belief, fostered by hearing people’s cultural views, has had tragic consequences for the education of deaf children; generations of children have attended schools in which they were forbidden to use a signed language. For Deaf people, as Padden and Humphries make clear, their signed language is life-giving, and is at the center of a rich cultural heritage. The tension between Deaf people’s views of themselves and the way the hearing world views them finds its way into their stories, which include tales about their origins and the characteristics they consider necessary for their existence and survival. Deaf in America includes folktales, accounts of old home movies, jokes, reminiscences, and translations of signed poems and modern signed performances. The authors introduce new material that has never before been published and also offer translations that capture as closely as possible the richness of the original material in ASL. Deaf in America will be of great interest to those interested in culture and language as well as to Deaf people and those who work with deaf children and Deaf people.
Author: Harlan L. Lane
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780679736141
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A look at the gulf that separates the deaf minority from the hearing world, this book sheds light on the mistreatment of the deaf community by a hearing establishment that resists understanding and awareness. Critically acclaimed as a breakthrough when it was first published in 1992, this new edition includes information on the science and ethics of childhood cochlear implants. An indictment of the ways in which experts in the scientific, medical, and educational establishment purport to serve the deaf, The Mask of Benevolence describes how they, in fact, do them great harm.
Author: Harlan Lane
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A look at the gulf that separates the deaf minority from the hearing world, this book sheds light on the mistreatment of the deaf community by a hearing establishment that resists understanding and awareness. Critically acclaimed as a breakthrough when it was first published in 1992, this new edition includes information on the science and ethics of childhood cochlear implants. An indictment of the ways in which experts in the scientific, medical, and educational establishment purport to serve the deaf, this book describes how they, in fact, do them great harm.
Author: Lydia Denworth
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2015-02-24
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0142181862
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“A skilled science translator, Denworth makes decibels, teslas and brain plasticity understandable to all.”—Washington Post Lydia Denworth’s third son, Alex, was nearly two when he was identified with significant hearing loss that was likely to get worse. Denworth knew the importance of enrichment to the developing brain but had never contemplated the opposite: deprivation. How would a child’s brain grow outside the world of sound? How would he communicate? Would he learn to read and write? An acclaimed science journalist as well as a mother, Denworth made it her mission to find out, interviewing experts on language development, inventors of groundbreaking technology, Deaf leaders, and neuroscientists at the frontiers of brain plasticity research. I Can Hear You Whisper chronicles Denworth’s search for answers—and her new understanding of Deaf culture and the exquisite relationship between sound, language, and learning.