A place of their own : creating the deaf community in America
Using original sources, this unique book focuses on the Deaf community during the nineteenth century. Largely through schools for the deaf, deaf people began to develop a common language and a sense of community. A Place of Their Own brings the perspective of history to bear on the reality of deafness and provides fresh and important insight into the lives of Deaf Americans
Print Book, English, 1989
Gallaudet University Press, Washington, D.C., 1989
History
xii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780930323493, 0930323491
18987014
Preface
Prophets and physicians
To educate a deaf person
Braidwood and the Bollings
A permanent school
The residential school experience
A deaf state
A college
Organizing
Cultural connections
The assault on sign language
The struggle to save signs
Marriage
Employing the deaf community
Epilogue