Deaf Culture
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Hearing Loss This excellent booklet is for people with a recent severe hearing loss, those that have been recently deafened, providing ready help and information for the rehabilitative process. It is also useful for family and friends of deafened people
£5.00
Constructing Deafness For anyone interested in deafness this is a really good read. It is a collection of essays and articles from a wide range of writers, covering perspectives on deafness, the Deaf community, psychological perspectives, audiology and technology, education, the status of sign language, social welfare and the potrayal of deaf people in the media.
£27.99
Explaining Deafness This book will help you to understand what causes deafness and how it affects people. There are many types of hearing problems that may affect people in different ways...
£13.99
LOOK AT ME This is something quite special - a deaf awareness book with a difference.
Each page features a short yet univeral message about deafness, deaf people, Deaf Community and Deaf Culture. Each message is accompanied with a striking image of Deaf and hearing Indian culture.
£11.99
Voices of the Oral Deaf This book presents interviews with 14 oral deaf role models from a number of diverse backgrounds. From Wall Street banker Ralph Marra to paralegal Kristin Buehl and 1984 Olympic gold medallist Jeff Float, this book sees oral deaf people share their experience and stories.
£37.50
HAVA Against All Odds Hava is the daughter of two profoundly Deaf Holocaust survivors. Her upbringing and the harrowing story of her parent's survival have made her deeply committed to teaching Holocaust awareness, which she undertakes all over the world. This is her remarkable and inspiring story.
£40.00
Deaf Cognition Foundations and Outcomes Deaf Cognition Foundations and Outcomes
Perspectives on Deafness
'This volume represents the state of the art in research that asks, 'What are the cognitive processes of individuals who learn through their eyes?'
£37.50
Deaf Identities This important title is a collection of inspiring and moving contributions from a wide range of Deaf people that reflect radically changing times. The rising level of awareness of the needs of Deaf people, and the discrimination and oppression they still face, is mirrored by the many changes within the Deaf community.
£19.95
Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness in Martha’s Vineyard Beautiful and fascinating...I was so moved by Groce's book that the moment I finished it I jumped in the car, with only a toothbrush, a tape recorder, and a camera - I had to see this enchanted island for myself. -- Oliver Sacks "New York Review of Books"
£17.95
I See a Voice What is so special about the human voice? The relationship between the ear and the voice is unique among the senses. While we cannot emit light or smell or flavour at will, we control, unconsciously or consciously, the sounds that come from our mouths. For this reason, many thinkers, most notably Freud, have seen the voice as the outward expression of the soul.
£8.99
Inside Deaf Culture This work looks at the historical events and forces that have defined the ‘Deaf in America’. An absorbing read, it details the search for a voice and identity.
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£11.99
Living with a Deaf Dog Susan Becker Cope’s book is a useful guide to those owning a deaf dog. She covers a variety of subjects including genetics, breeding, diagnosis of canine deafness along with training and safety measures. All covered in an accessible manner.
£15.95
My Island: The True Story of a Silent Challenge This is a profoundly moving book. It tells the story of Hamish Rosie, from the Orkney Islands, left deaf by meningitis. At the age of 4 he was sent to a special school in Aberdeen so that he could ‘learn to speak’.
£15.99
My Sense of Silence: Memoirs of a Childhood with Deafness Lennard J. Davis grew up as the hearing child of deaf parents. In this candid, affecting, and often funny memoir, he recalls the joys and confusions of this special world, especially his complex and sometimes difficult relationships with his working-class Jewish immigrant parents.
£14.99
Open Your Eyes – Deaf Studies Talking This is a deaf studies work – it looks at a variety of deaf issues including the physical and cultural boundaries of deaf places, deaf identities and the impacts of sexuality, gender and disability. It looks at the role of sensory perception in building communities and tackles the challenge of ‘labels’.
£15.50
Seeing Voices Imaginative and insightful, this book offers an insight to the experience of being deaf and on living in a world of silence; a world where the visual is paramount.
£8.99
Sign Language - The study of deaf people and their language The discovery of the importance of sign language in the deaf community is very recent indeed. This book provides a study of the communication and culture of deaf people, and particularly of the deaf community in Britain.
£35.00
The Talking Deaf Man Amman (1669-1724) was a Swiss physician and teacher of 'non-verbal deaf persons'. After graduating at Basel in 1687 he began to practise at Amsterdam, where he gained a great reputation. He was one of the earliest writers on the instruction of the non-verbal deaf...
£6.99
Theology without Words This book is a study of a Christian theology without words, focussing on theology in the Deaf Community. Deaf people's first and preferred method of communication is not English or any other spoken language, but British Sign Language - a language that cannot be written down...
£17.99
Understanding Deaf Culture - In Search of Deafhood Paddy Ladd
Ladd’s book presents a ‘Traveller’s Guide’ to deaf culture, starting from the view that that deaf cultures have an important contribution to make to other academic disciplines, and of course, human lives in general. It notes that within and outside deaf communities, there is a need for an account of the new concept of deaf culture – one which enables readers to assess its place alongside work on other minority cultures and multilingual discourses.
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£24.95
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