Cultural and Language Diversity and the Deaf ExperienceIla Parasnis Cambridge University Press, 1998 M08 28 - 324 pages This edited volume provides a comprehensive analysis of deaf people as a culturally and linguistically distinct minority group within American society. Many educators, linguists, and researchers now favor this position, as opposed to that which states that a deaf person simply has an audiological disability. Contributors to this book include members of the deaf community, as well as prominent deaf and hearing educators and researchers. The text contains three sections, covering research on bilingualism and biculturalism, the impact of cultural and language diversity on the deaf experience, and first-hand accounts from deaf community members that highlight the emotional impact of living in the deaf and hearing worlds. |
Contents
On Interpreting the Deaf Experience within the Context of Cultural and Language Diversity | 3 |
Living with Two Languages and Two Cultures | 20 |
Perspectives from the History and the Politics of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education in the United States | 38 |
Cognitive and Language Development of Bilingual Children | 51 |
PSYCHOSOCIAL COGNITIVE AND LANGUAGE EXPERIENCES OF DEAF PEOPLE | 77 |
From the Cultural to the Bicultural The Modern Deaf Community | 79 |
Early Bilingual Lives of Deaf Children | 99 |
Communication Experiences of Deaf People An Ethnographic Account | 117 |
Social Assimilation of Deaf High School Students The Role Environment | 181 |
THE DEAF EXPERIENCE PERSONAL REFLECTIONS | 199 |
Growing up Deaf in Deaf Families Two Different Experiences | 201 |
Another New Birth Reflections of a Deaf Native Signer | 225 |
Raising Deaf Children in Hearing Society Struggles and Challenges for Deaf Native ASL Signers | 232 |
In Search of Self Experiences of a Postlingually Deaf AfricanAmerican | 246 |
Living in a Bilingual Bicultural Family | 258 |
On Being Both Hearing and Deaf My Bilingual Bicultural Experience | 272 |
Marginality Biculturalism and Social Identity of Deaf People | 136 |
Attitudes of the Deaf Community Toward Political Activism | 146 |
Cultural and Language Diversity in the Curriculum Toward Reflective Practice | 160 |
Minority Empowerment and the Education of Deaf People | 171 |
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