Learning American Sign Language to Experience the Essence of Deaf Culture [1 ed.] 9781634876926, 9781634876940, 9781634876933, 163487692X

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LEARNING AMERICAN

SIGN ~~@

LANGUAGE

~~ft~~~~~ TO EXPERIENCE THE ESSENCE OF

DEAF CULTURE Newly Revised First Edition

EDITED BY

LISA KOCH

LEARNING

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE TO EXPERIENCE THE ESSENCE OF

DEAF CULTURE Newly Revised First Edition

Edited by Lisa Koch Ohio University

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Contents SECTION ONE Interacting with Deaf People Interaction w ith Deaf People: A t o Z

3 3

GRETCHEN WAECH Deaf Culture

8

W ILLIAM VICARS ED.D.

History of Deaf Education in America

11

EDITED BY LISA KOCH

Medical and Cultural Views of Deafness Medica l and Cultural Views of Deafness

17 17

F. C. STAMPS

ASL Continuum ASL & English: ASUPSE/M CEs

19 19

F. C. STAMPS

Communication Technologies

21

Communicati on Techno log ies

21

F. C. STAMPS

Avenues Into the Deaf Community Considerati ons for Mediating w ith People Who Are Culturally Deaf

25 25

ANN ETTE LEO NARD, DEB DU REN, AND JO HN REIMAN

Deaf Culture: What Is It?

33

MICHELLE JAY

ASL Numbering Systems

39

LISA KOCH

ASL Name Signs ASL Glossing

47 47

BARBARA A. DIMOPOULOS Name Signs

49

LISA KOCH

Are Sign Languages "Real" Languages?

53

LISA KOCH

ASL Grammar Summary

61

LISA KOCH

SECTION TWO Notable Deaf Men and Women

75

MICHELLE JAY

The Development of Sign Language

83

DEBORAH CHEN PICHLER

The Ear and Deafness: How We Hear AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOCIATION

105

Deafhood: A Concept Stressing Possibilities, Not Deficits

109

PADDY LADD

Who Decides for Us, Deaf People?

119

HELEN R. THUMANN AND LAURENE E. SIMMS

Learning about Hearing People in the Land of the Deaf: An Ethnographic Account

139

AUDREI GESSER

Understanding Deafhood: In Search of Its Meanings

149

ANN ELIES KUSTERS AND MAARTJ E DE MEULDER

SECTION THREE Deaf Culture and Cochlear Implants

167

LISA KOCH

Construction of Deafness

171

HARLAN LANE

American Sign Language: Our Natural Language: "The Noblest Gift"

189

GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY

Deaf Poets' Society: Subverting the Hearing Paradigm

209

SUSAN BURCH

What Is Deaf Art?

219

DE'VIA

Dysconscious Audism: A Theoretical Proposition GENIE GERTZ

221

Upon the Formation of a Visual Variety of the Human Race

227

BENJAMIN BAHAN Bird of a Different Feather

235

SAM SUPALLA AND BEN BAHAN JUINE For a Decent Living SAM SUPALLA AND BEN BAHAN JUINE

245

SECTION

ONE

Interacting with Deaf People INTERACTION WITH DEAF PEOPLE: ATO Z WRITIEN BY

GRETCHEN WAECH

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eep in mind that na two deaf or Deaf people are alil