This edited volume provides a comprehensive analysis of deaf people as a culturally and linguistically distinct minority group within American society. Many educators, linguists, and researchers now favor this position, as opposed to that which states that a deaf person simply has an audiological disability. Contributors to this book include members of the deaf community, as well as prominent deaf and hearing educators and researchers. The text contains three sections, covering research on bilingualism and biculturalism, the impact of cultural and language diversity on the deaf experience, and first-hand accounts from deaf community members that highlight the emotional impact of living in the deaf and hearing worlds.
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"Parasnis' 'Cultural and Language Diversity and the Deaf Experience' will be a valuable addition to the library of professionals who provide services to Deaf people. It will also be of considerable interest to researchers, instructors, and professionals in minority education and bilingualism. All will be informed by the varied perspectives of the impact of language and culture on the experience of membership in a minority group." Contemporary Psychology
"Nonspecialists will find that this book provides an intriguing and provocative introduction to Deaf culture, and specialists in deafness-related professions will appreciate this volume for its broad coverage of socioculture issues that impact the lives of Deaf children and adults." Janet R. Jamieson, Contemporary Psychology
"The book, Culture, Language Diversity and the Deaf Experience, is an elegant and comprehensive exposition of one side of this long-standing debate in deaf education -- the side which portrays deaf people as comprising a bilingual and bicultural minority group whose native language is a signed rather than a spoken language (ASL/LSQ). In three well-organized sections, the editor...assembles readable articles...drawing from a wide variety of experts with both academic and personal experience in the field of deafness. The articles are the ultimate product of colloquia on the same topic that were held earlier at the National Technical Institute of the Deaf." McGill Journal of Education
"...the section with personal essays makes the book especially attractive for a wider audience. This innovative and interdisciplinary volume is highly recommended for all interested in linguistic and cultural diversity: linguists, psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists, sign language interpreters, researchers and educators involved in the education of the Deaf, and last, but not least, all those who deal with the experience of living in the Deaf and Hearing worlds on a daily basis." SocioLinguistics
"Nonspecialists will find that this book provides an intriguing and provocative introduction to Deaf culture, and specialists in deafness-related professions will appreciate this volume for its broad coverage of socioculture issues that impact the lives of Deaf children and adults." Janet R. Jamieson, Contemporary Psychology
"The book, Culture, Language Diversity and the Deaf Experience, is an elegant and comprehensive exposition of one side of this long-standing debate in deaf education -- the side which portrays deaf people as comprising a bilingual and bicultural minority group whose native language is a signed rather than a spoken language (ASL/LSQ). In three well-organized sections, the editor...assembles readable articles...drawing from a wide variety of experts with both academic and personal experience in the field of deafness. The articles are the ultimate product of colloquia on the same topic that were held earlier at the National Technical Institute of the Deaf." McGill Journal of Education
"...the section with personal essays makes the book especially attractive for a wider audience. This innovative and interdisciplinary volume is highly recommended for all interested in linguistic and cultural diversity: linguists, psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists, sign language interpreters, researchers and educators involved in the education of the Deaf, and last, but not least, all those who deal with the experience of living in the Deaf and Hearing worlds on a daily basis." SocioLinguistics
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This edited book presents an detailed analysis of the experience of deaf people as a bilingual-bicultural minority group in America. An overview of mainstream research on bilingualism and biculturalism is followed by specific research and conceptual analyses which examine the impact of cultural and language diversity on the experiences of deaf people. The book ends with poignant personal reflections from deaf community members. The contributors include prominent deaf and hearing experts in bilingualism, ASL and Deaf culture, and deaf education.
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The functional roles that Deaf culture and American Sign Language (ASL) can play in the psychosocial development of deaf children and their relevance to the education of deaf people are much-discussed issues among those who are involved professionally or socially with deaf people in the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mainstreamed deaf students, bilingual language mode, additive bilinguality, deaf leaders, fingerspelled words, bilingual development, young deaf children, bilingual experience, audiological condition, involuntary minority groups, deaf employees, deaf community, deaf people, monolingual mode, deaf experience, deaf peers, sign language research, deaf culture, bicultural people, bicultural person, interdependence hypothesis, hearing sister, hearing students, spelling attempts, deaf president Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The functional roles that Deaf culture and American Sign Language (ASL) can play in the psychosocial development of deaf children and their relevance to the education of deaf people are much-discussed issues among those who are involved professionally or socially with deaf people in the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mainstreamed deaf students, bilingual language mode, additive bilinguality, deaf leaders, fingerspelled words, bilingual development, young deaf children, bilingual experience, audiological condition, involuntary minority groups, deaf employees, deaf community, deaf people, monolingual mode, deaf experience, deaf peers, sign language research, deaf culture, bicultural people, bicultural person, interdependence hypothesis, hearing sister, hearing students, spelling attempts, deaf president Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Silver Spring, National Association of the Deaf, Harvard University Press, Gallaudet University, Academic Press, Rochester Institute of Technology, American Annals of the Deaf, San Diego, University of California, Van Cleve, Lawrence Erlbaum, Lomb Memorial Drive, Department of Education, Linstok Press, University of Rochester, Lexington School, Cambridge University Press, Los Angeles, Stanford University, Associate Professor, Houghton Mifflin, Sign Language Studies, Basic Books New!
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- Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture by Carol A. Padden on page 79, page 99, and page 230
- Social Psychology (Foundations of modern psychology series) by William Wilson Lambert on page 73, and page 74
- Life with Two Languages: An Introduction to Bilingualism by François Grosjean on page 20, and page 259
- Recent Perspectives on American Sign Language by Harlan L. Lane on page 20
- Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks on page 18
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- Bilinguality and Bilingualism by Josiane F. Hamers in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages by Ceil Lucas in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Handbook of Latina/o Theologies by Edwin David Aponte in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity by Joshua A. Fishman on page 139
- Reflective Practice: Writing and Professional Development by Gillie E J Bolton in Back Matter
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