Category: Books and Authors
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The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL
I’ve created a video with the highlights from the textbook The Hidden Treasures of Black ASL, including a PowerPoint. Enjoy! *The QR code got cut off in my video, but you can access the link it goes to here.
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Women and Deafness: Double Visions, edited by Brueggemann and Burch
“The requirements for contestants in the Miss Deaf America pageant (and Miss Gallaudet and many other state-level contests) reflect mainstream pageant rules but also reveal physical and cultural Deaf components.”
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Emerging Wings by Melissa Lewis
If you want a brief introduction to what life is like for one person who is not Hearing, this is the book for you.
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Never the Twain Shall Meet
“Throughout the last two centuries, a controversial question has plagued the field of education of the deaf: should sign language be used to communicate with and instruct deaf children?”
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Finding Zoe: A Deaf Woman’s Story of Identity, Love, and Adoption By Brandi Rarus and Gail Harris
Finding Zoe is very much a feel-good book about stars aligning. Brandi and Tim Rarus find the daughter they want in Jess and BJ’s baby girl not only because she needs a home, but because they are the right home for a deaf infant. — thoughts by Melanie Page, originally published at Grab the Lapels
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The Words in My Hands by Asphyxia
It truly feels like Piper is navigating the hearing world and constantly making choices about speaking, signing, hearing aids, interpreters, writing notes, etc. — thoughts by Melanie Page, originally published at Grab the Lapels
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Train Go Sorry by Leah Hager Cohen
An interesting look into Lexington School for the Deaf because it was historically an oral school, teaching deaf children to speak, but had to recognize that ASL is an actual language and then find staff who are Deaf and/or use ASL. — thoughts by Melanie Page, originally published at Grab the Lapels
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Growing Up Deaf by Rose Pizzo
While Pizzo signed, Jonas interpreted into a tape recorder. There was an editorial time during which Pizzo and Jonas confirmed that what Jonas said into the tape recorder matched Pizzo’s intention. — thoughts by Melanie Page, originally published at Grab the Lapels
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On the Beat of Truth: A Hearing Daughter’s Stories of Her Black Deaf Parents by Maxine Childress Brown
Childress Brown chooses anecdotes that allow the reader to see how being black, Deaf, poor, educated, and living before the Civil Rights Movement are all intersections where her parents exist. — thoughts by Melanie Page, originally published at Grab the Lapels
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A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family by Lou Ann Walker
I’ve never read another memoir in which the parents are so unfailingly kind, modeling the kind of behavior we wish to see in society. — thoughts by Melanie Page, originally published at Grab the Lapels
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