Deaf gain : raising the stakes for human diversity / H-Dirksen L. Bauman and Joseph J. Murray, editors ; foreword by Andrew Solomon ; afterword by Tove Skuttnab-Kangas.
Deaf people are usually regarded by the hearing world as having a lack, as missing a sense. Yet a definition of deaf people based on hearing loss obscures a wealth of ways in which societies have benefited from the significant contributions of deaf people. In this intervention into ongoing debates a...
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword : Deaf loss / Andrew Solomon
- Deaf gain : an introduction / H-Dirksen L. Bauman and Joseph J. Murray
- Armchairs and stares : on the privation of deafness / Teresa Blankmeyer Burke
- Identifying the "able" in a vari-able world : two lessons / James Tabery
- The case for deaf legal theory through the lens of deaf gain / Alison Bryan and Steve Emery
- Three revolutions : language, culture, and biology / Laura-Ann Petitto
- Deaf gain in evolutionary perspective / David Armstrong
- Deaf gains in the study of bilingualism and bilingual education / Ofelia García and Debra Cole
- What we learned from sign languages when we stopped having to defend them / Cindee Calton
- Advantages of learning a signed language / Peter C. Hauser and Geo Kartheiser
- Baby sign as deaf gain / Kristin Snoddon
- Manual signs and gestures of the Inuit of Baffin Island : observations during the three voyages led by Martin Frobisher / Clara Sherley-Appel and John D. Bonvillian
- Bulwer's speaking hands : deafness and rhetoric / Jennifer Nelson
- Seeing the world through deaf eyes / Matthew Dye
- A magic touch : deaf gain and the benefits of tactile sensation / Donna Jo Napoli
- Senses and culture : exploring sensory orientations / Benjamin Bahan
- The deaf gain of Wladislav Zeitlin, Jewish scientist and inventor / Mark Zaurov
- The hidden gain : a new lens of research with d/Deaf children and adults / Hilary Sutherland and Katherine D. Rogers
- Deaf gain and shared signing communities / Annelies Kusters
- Gainful employment: historical examples from Akron, Ohio / Kati Morton
- Effective deaf action in the deaf community in Uruguay / Elizabeth M. Lockwood
- Deaf gains in Brazil : linguistic policies and network establishment / Ronice Müller de Quadros, Karin Strobel, and Mara Lúcia Masutti
- Deaf gain : beyond deaf culture / Irene W. Leigh, Donna A. Morere, and Caroline Kobek Pezzarossi
- DeafSpace : an architecture toward a more livable and sustainable world / Hansel Bauman
- Co-design from divergent thinking / Antti Raike, Suvi Pylvänen, and Päivi Rainò
- The hearing line : how literature gains from deaf people / Christopher Krentz
- Deaf music : embodying language and rhythm / Summer Loeffler
- Deaf gain and creativity in signed literature / Rachel Sutton-Spence
- Deaf gain and the creative arts : interviews with deaf artists / Jennifer Grinder Witteborg
- Afterword. Implications of deaf gain : linguistic human rights for deaf citizens / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas.