Cultural and language diversity and the deaf experience
By: editor, Ila Parasnis.
Contributors: Parasnis, Ila.
Edition: 1st paperback ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Deaf -- United States -- Social conditions; Linguistic minorities -- United States; Multiculturalism -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Bilingualism-biculturalism and the deaf experience: an overview.; title: On interpreting the deaf experience within the context of cultural and language diversity -- Ila Parasnis; title: Living with two languages and two cultures -- Franc ʹois Grosjean; title: Perspectives from the history and the politics of bilingualism and bilingual education in the United States -- Kenji Hakuta, Elizabeth Feldman Mostafapour; title: Cognitive and language development of bilingual children -- Josiane F. Hamers.; title: Part II. Psychosocial, cognitive, and language experiences of deaf people.; title: From the cultural to the bicultural: the modern deaf community -- Carol A. Padden; title: Early bilingual lives of deaf children -- Carol A. Padden; title: Communication experiences of deaf people: an ethnographic account -- Susan B. Foster; title: Marginality, biculturalism, and social identity of deaf people -- R. Greg Emerton; title: Attitudes of the deaf community toward political activism -- Gerald C. Bateman; title: Cultural and language diversity in the curriculum: toward reflective practice -- Bonnie Meath-Lang; title: Minority empowerment and the education of deaf people -- Joan B. Stone; title: Social assimilation of deaf high school students: the role of school environment -- Thomas K. Holcomb.; title: Part III. The Deaf experience: personal reflections.; title: Growing up deaf in deaf families: two different experiences -- Susan C. Searls, David R. Johnston; title: Another new birth: reflections of a deaf native signer -- Patrick A. Graybill; title: Raising deaf children in hearing society: struggles and challenges for deaf native ASL signers -- Gary E. Mowl; title: In search of self: experiences of a postlingually deaf African-American -- Dianne K. Brooks; title: Living in a bilingual-bicultural family -- Lynn Finton; title: On being both hearing and deaf: my bilingual-bicultural experience -- Patricia Mudgett-DeCaro.