Words made flesh
Subtitle: nineteenth-century deaf education and the growth of deaf culture
By: R.A.R. Edwards
Series: The history of disability
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780814722435; 9780814724026; 9780814724033
Subjects: Social conditions; Deaf culture; Education; Deaf; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc: a Yale man and a deaf man open a school and create a world; title: Manual education: an American beginning; title: Learning to be deaf: lessons from the residential school; title: The deaf way: living a deaf life; title: Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe: the first American oralists; title: Languages of signs: methodical versus natural.