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The Impact of Sports within the Deaf Community

This condensed Spanish edition of The Silent Garden offers parents of deaf children guidance and unbiased information.

Breda Carty explores the formation of Deaf organizations and institutions in Australia in the early 20th century.

This is a groundbreaking study of Ethiopian Sign Language (EthSL) that examines EthSL use in various spaces and investigates the factors that impact attitudes toward this under-researched language.

Mathews conducts qualitative research that explores the impact of mainstreaming deaf students on power relations across parents, children, and professionals.

Paul W. Ogden, a lifelong educator and advocate for deaf children, shares his personal story of challenges faced and lessons learned.

Samar Sinha presents pioneering research on Indian Sign Language that is supplemented by a description of the Deaf community in India.

Maria Wallisfurth documents the details of her deaf parents' lives in Germany from the turn of the twentieth century through the rise of the Nazi regime.

This accessible and inspiring volume explores the teaching goals and favorite publications of leading professors in the field of sign language interpretation.

Promoting Positive Transition Outcomes is the most comprehensive discussion of transition planning and results for DHH students now available. Luft provides an overview of the challenges to DHH students and their academic and vocational potential. She explores the importance of forming an identity and building foundational social and problem-solving skills. She examines the services that are currently available in high schools and offers recommendations for strengthening transition team planning by reaching out to external experts. The volume concludes with suggestions for creating a framework to address the challenges of transition planning and offers guidance on building effective plans.

This ground-breaking work, originally published 15 years ago, continues to serve as the primary reference on the theories of omission potential and translational contact in sign language interpreting. Noted scholar Jemina Napier explores the linguistic coping strategies of interpreters by drawing on her own study of the interpretation of a university lecture from English into Australian Sign Language (Auslan). A new preface by the author provides perspective on the importance of the work and how it fits within the scholarship of interpretation studies.

International Sign (IS) is widely used among deaf people and interpreters at international events, but what exactly is it, what are its linguistic features, where does its lexicon come from, and how is it used at interpreted events? This groundbreaking collection is the first volume to provide answers to these questions.

This volume collects the very best research presented at the Fifth World Congress on Mental Health and Deafness, which took place in Monterrey, Mexico, in 2012. The eighteen international contributors represent the pioneers of mental health and deafness services in their respective countries and provide in-depth analysis of the specific challenges and treatment options in providing mental healthcare to deaf people.

Lori A. Whynot's examination of International Sign has crucial implications for expository IS usage, training, and interpreting.

This book examines the development of deaf people's autonomy and citizenship discourses as they sought access to full citizenship rights in local and national settings. The essays in this collection explore deaf peoples' claims to autonomy in their personal, religious, social, and organizational lives, and reveal how these debates overlapped with social trends and spilled out into particular physical and social spaces such as clubs, churches, and within families. The contributors demonstrate that as deaf people pushed for their rights as citizens, they met with resistance from hearing people, and the results of their efforts were decidedly mixed.

A novel, that recounts the rollicking tale of a young deaf boy and how he learned to survive and thrive at the turn of the twentieth century.

An initiative known as the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) strives to improve education by examining and assessing classroom interaction. This book presents research by professors who adopted SoTL methodology to study their classrooms at Gallaudet University, an institution employing American Sign Language and written English.

Includes the cultural perceptions by and of deaf people, the assimilation of deaf children to surrounding communities, the role that society's view of deaf people plays in affecting how deaf people view themselves, the impact of bilingualism in deaf communities, and transliteration.

This is an essential resource for educators and school psychologists working with deaf and hard of hearing children and adolescents. Covering such critical areas as the role of parents in the assessment process and nonverbal methods for assessing intelligence, the text concludes with recommendations for the development of valid and reliable tests for all students who are deaf and hard of hearing.

This first-of-its-kind volume contains ten papers from the 2013 International Symposium on Signed Language Interpreting and Translation Research that document current research on critical areas in interpretation and translation studies. The contributors cover topics ranging from the need for Deaf perspectives in interpretation research to discourse strategies and techniques that are unique to video relay call settings, and more.

Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the linguistically and geographically diverse regions of the world. As in the rest of the world, deaf people live throughout sub-Saharan communities. This is a research on sub-Saharan signed languages and deaf community, organizing has created the opportunity to gather together and the perspectives presented herein.