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The people who spell : the last students from the Mexican National School for the Deaf / Claire L. Ramsey.
LIBRA HV2583 .R36 2011
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Van Pelt Library HV2583 .R36 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ramsey, Claire L. (Claire Louise)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deaf people--Education--Mexico.
- Deaf people.
- Escuela Nacional para Sordomudos (Mexico).
- Deaf people--Education.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- x, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- In this compelling history of the now defunct Escuela Nacional para Sordomudos (Mexican National School for the Deaf), the last students known as "ENS signers" detail their remarkable lives and heritage, and question the future of Mexico's young deaf people.
- Contents:
- Somos sordos Mexicanos : we are deaf Mexicans
- The research in Mexico City
- Deaf lives and research on deaf lives in Mexico
- The history of deaf education in Mexico and the ENS signers
- Childhood and school years
- The differing lives of deaf women and men
- Social and married lives
- The collective remembering of the ENS signers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781563685057
- 1563685051
- 9781563685064
- 156368506X
- OCLC:
- 727705045
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