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What Is It Like to Be Deaf?

What Is It Like to Be Deaf?

Deborah Kent

"Follows the everyday lives of several Deaf school children, describing what they do in school, how they communicate with both hearing and Deaf relatives and friends, what they do for fun, and what being part of the Deaf community means to ...
Deaf Sport: The Impact of Sports Within the Deaf Community

Deaf Sport: The Impact of Sports Within the Deaf Community

David Alan Stewart

This important book analyzes the governing and business aspects of Deaf sport, both local deaf groups and the American Athletic Association of the Deaf and the World Games for the Deaf.
Biennial Report

Biennial Report

American School for the Deaf, Hartford, Conn

4 “ “ John W. Compton, Georgetown, “ “ 9 Congenital. 1 sister. “ '1 “ Clerk in the Trees. Depart. Washington. Benjamin P. Mead, Charleston, Vt. “ 22 Spotted fever at 2 yrs. Vermont. 4 “ A mechanic and farmer. Amos Coon, Brooklyn, Conn.
Report of the Directors and Officers ...

Report of the Directors and Officers ...

American School for the Deaf, Hartford

... Jr. Warren Fuller Nathan P. Morse, Jr. William Hipkins John W. Compton Benjamin P. Mead Amos Coon Mary Ann Walworth Sophronia Titcomb Susan Glass Elisha Osgood Peter Trask William Jack Andrew Thomas, Jr. Reuben Gleason, ...
Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South

Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South

Mary Herring Wright

Recounts the author's experiences growing up as a deaf person in Iron Mine, North Carolina, from the 1920s through the 1940s, and describes life at a residential school for black deaf and blind students as both a student and a teacher.
Mother Father Deaf: Living Between Sound and Silence

Mother Father Deaf: Living Between Sound and Silence

Paul Preston

"Mother father deaf" is the phrase commonly used within the Deaf community to refer to hearing children of deaf parents.
Through Deaf Eyes: A Photographic History of an American ...

Through Deaf Eyes: A Photographic History of an American ...

Douglas C. Baynton

Photographs and interviews document the history of deaf culture in the United States.
The Deaf Mute Howls

The Deaf Mute Howls

Albert Ballin

Albert Ballin's sharp observations in this remarkable book detail his experiences (and those of others) at a late 19th-century residential school for deaf students and his frustrations as an adult seeking acceptance in the majority hearing ...
Deaf Empowerment: Emergence, Struggle, and Rhetoric

Deaf Empowerment: Emergence, Struggle, and Rhetoric

Katherine A. Jankowski

Examines the social movements of the deaf in America from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present, and discusses how advocates for the deaf adopted methods from other social revolutions to accomplish their goals.
Deaf Subjects: Between Identities and Places

Deaf Subjects: Between Identities and Places

Brenda Jo Brueggemann

Taking on the creation of the modern deaf subject, Brueggemann ranges from the intersections of gender and deafness in the work of photographers Mary and Frances Allen at the turn of the last century, to the state of the field of Deaf ...
The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory

The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory

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Katherine Jankowski argues in Deaf Empowerment: Emergence, Struggle, and Rhetoric that "the rhetorical trends of the Deaf social movement since the Gallaudet protest indicate this direction."29 The hearing public therefore had barely ...
Literacy and Deaf People: Cultural and Contextual Perspectives

Literacy and Deaf People: Cultural and Contextual Perspectives

Brenda Jo Brueggemann

This compelling collection advocates for an alternative view of deaf people’s literacy, one that emphasizes recent shifts in Deaf cultural identity rather than a student’s past educational context as determined by the dominant hearing ...
Deaf People in Hitler's Europe

Deaf People in Hitler's Europe

Donna F. Ryan

Key presentations from the Deaf People in Hitler's Europe, 1933-1945 Conference have been integrated with additional important work into three crucial parts: Racial Hygiene, the German Experience and the Jewish Deaf experience.
The Negro Church: With an Introduction by Alton B. Pollard III

The Negro Church: With an Introduction by Alton B. Pollard III

W.E.B. Du Bois

McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, Ill........................... Union Christian College, Theological Department, Merom, Ind........ Hartford Theological Seminary , Hartford, ... Divinity School of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, Pa. ... St. Vincent's Seminary. ... New Brunswick, N.J. Beatty, Pa Gambier, O. Selinsgrove, Pa Greenville, Ill. Rock Island, Ill. Columbus, O. Chester, Pa. Lancaster, Pa.
The Cleaning Ninja: How to Clean Your Home in 8 Minutes Flat ...

The Cleaning Ninja: How to Clean Your Home in 8 Minutes Flat ...

Courtenay Hartford

Yes, it is possible! The funny and savvy Courtenay Hartford takes readers on a journey to work smarter, not harder, and get back to the real life–living they’d rather be doing.
Education and the Handicapped 1760 - 1960

Education and the Handicapped 1760 - 1960

D.G. Pritchard

Ewing", Sir Alexander W. G Exeter School for the B ' Exeter V.A.D. Hospital Farrar , Abpdalzlamw d ... Donaldson's Hospital, Edinburgh, laDonaldson's School for the Deaf, Dresden Hilfis-schulelE Dresden Open-Air SchoolJE Dublin Institution ...
Deaf Way II: An International Celebration

Deaf Way II: An International Celebration

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'Deaf Way II - An international celebration' ensures that this remarkable event will live forever through a lasting photographic record of the dynamics of this many-faceted festival.
Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut

Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut

Lucius Barnes Barbour

This remarkable work contains the genealogical records of over 950 families of early Hartford, Connecticut.
Annual Report of New York State Library School

Annual Report of New York State Library School

New York State Library. School

Hewins, Caroline M. Librarian, Hartford (Conn.) Public Library: Historical survey of children's books Kent, H. W. Secretary, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City: The library atmosphere Legler, H. E. Librarian, Chicago Public Library: The  ...
Assumed Obligation

Assumed Obligation

Kara Louise

" ... we follow the lives of Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth Darcy as they honeymoon in Paris, return to Pemberley, and begin the school for the deaf."--Book cover.
Hartford district, 1635-1700

Hartford district, 1635-1700

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Thomas Manninge, Tho: Addison; Robert Ewen, Hugh Conn, Georg Holmes. Page 39. Pantry, John, Hartford. Invt. £1242-01-00. Taken 25 November, 1653, by John Talcott, Edward Stebbing. Will dated 1st September 1653 : I John Peintre of ...
Nat Fleischer's All-time Ring Record Book ...

Nat Fleischer's All-time Ring Record Book ...

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3 — Pete DeJames, Bridgeport W 4 Mar. 16 — Frankie Jayne, New York W 6 Mar . 23 — Danny Falcone, Hartford D 6 Apr. 6— Danny Falcone, Hartford . . W 6 Apr. 16 — Nick Devanno, New London W 6 Apr. 19— Willie Carrion, New Haven W ...
Bulletin of the American School of Correspondence at the ...

Bulletin of the American School of Correspondence at the ...

American School (Lansing, Ill.)

Felicien Van Den Branden — Plastering lnstructor, Building Trades Apprentice School, Detroit. President, Plastering lndustry Joint Conference Board, Inc. Ernest Venk, M.A. Voc. Ed. — lnstructor in Auto, Aviation, & Marine Mechanics, Fordson  ...
Annual Report - American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Annual Report - American School of Classical Studies at Athens

American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Professor Jacob Charles Hoch, Pittsburgh High School. Dr. William J. Holland, Carnegie Museum. Durbin Horne, Penn Avenue, near Bichland Lane. Professor A. S. Hunter, Western University of Pennsylvania, Allegheny, Pa. John B. Jackson  ...
Indiana History Bulletin

Indiana History Bulletin

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... John William Leech, Hartford City; Essie M. Rumble, H^zletonj Hebron High School, Hebron; Juliane Mikhel, Richard W. Soudriette, Highland; Mr. & Mrs. Harry Kilander, Charles E. Lambdin, Mrs. Lucille Farley Speer, Virginia Stoner, Hobart; ...
American Public School Finance

American Public School Finance

William Owings

This text presents the realities of school finance policy, issues, and applications to prepare educational leadership candidates for their future roles as school principals, superintendents, and other administrative positions.
African Americans of Western Long Island

African Americans of Western Long Island

Jerry Domatob

Dr. Constance R. Clark is one of the first female African American school superintendents of the Westbury School District and one of just two African American women serving in that position in Nassau County. She has forged alliances with the ...
Literary Connecticut: The Hartford Wits, Mark Twain and the ...

Literary Connecticut: The Hartford Wits, Mark Twain and the ...

Eric D. Lehman

First published 2014 ebook edition 2014 ISBN 978.1.62584.572.6 Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Lehman, Eric D. Literary Connecticut: the Hartford wits, Mark Twain and the new millennium / Eric D. Lehman and Amy  ...
Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World

Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World

Leah Cohen

"Train go sorry" is the American Sign Language expression for "missing the boat.
The Once and Future School: Three Hundred and Fifty Years of ...

The Once and Future School: Three Hundred and Fifty Years of ...

Jurgen Herbst

PhilipA.Cusick, The Egalitarian Idealand the American High School (New York: Longman,1983). p.111. 4. Ibid.,p. 119. 5. The reference istoDavid K.Cohen's chapter “Origins,”in The ShoppingMallHigh School: Winners andLosers inthe ...

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