Cultural and language diversity and the deaf experience / editor, Ila Parasnis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parasnis, Ila, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deaf people--United States--Social conditions.

Deaf people.

Linguistic minorities--United States.

Linguistic minorities.

Multiculturalism--United States.

Multiculturalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Cultural & Language Diversity & the Deaf Experience

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The perspective that deaf people should be regarded as a cultural and language minority group rather than individuals with an audiological disability is gathering support among educators, linguists, and researchers involved in the education of deaf people across America. This book explores the notion that deaf people are members of a bilingual-bicultural minority group, whose experiences often overlap with the those of hearing minority group members, but at other times are unique. Contributors to this book include prominent deaf and hearing researchers, educators, and deaf community members. The three sections review research on bilingualism and biculturalism, the impact of cultural and language diversity on the deaf experience, and offer rich experiential evidence from deaf community members which highlights the emotional impact of living in the deaf and hearing worlds.

Contents:

Part I. Bilingualism-biculturalism and the deaf experience: an overview. On interpreting the deaf experience within the context of cultural and language diversity / Ila Parasnis

Living with two languages and two cultures / François Grosjean

Perspectives from the history and the politics of bilingualism and bilingual education in the United States / Kenji Hakuta, Elizabeth Feldman Mostafapour

Cognitive and language development of bilingual children / Josiane F. Hamers.

Part II. Psychosocial, cognitive, and language experiences of deaf people. From the cultural to the bicultural: the modern deaf community / Carol A. Padden

Early bilingual lives of deaf children / Carol A. Padden

Communication experiences of deaf people: an ethnographic account / Susan B. Foster

Marginality, biculturalism, and social identity of deaf people / R. Greg Emerton

Attitudes of the deaf community toward political activism / Gerald C. Bateman

Cultural and language diversity in the curriculum: toward reflective practice / Bonnie Meath-Lang

Minority empowerment and the education of deaf people / Joan B. Stone

Social assimilation of deaf high school students: the role of school environment / Thomas K. Holcomb.

Part III. The Deaf experience: personal reflections. Growing up deaf in deaf families: two different experiences / Susan C. Searls, David R. Johnston

Another new birth: reflections of a deaf native signer / Patrick A. Graybill

Raising deaf children in hearing society: struggles and challenges for deaf native ASL signers / Gary E. Mowl

In search of self: experiences of a postlingually deaf African-American / Dianne K. Brooks

Living in a bilingual-bicultural family / Lynn Finton

On being both hearing and deaf: my bilingual-bicultural experience / Patricia Mudgett-DeCaro.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-16380-9