Genes, Hearing, and Deafness
... Deaf people and may also choose to have a partner who is Deaf . Approximately 90 % of Deaf individuals are thought to marry another Deaf person ( not including individuals with late onset deafness ) ( 9 ) . The audiological level of ...
Linguistics of American Sign Language
... deaf community , in addition to the gen- eral hearing community.2 In the final battery of questions , partici- pants were asked to comment on the black deaf community . In many of the responses , participants mentioned parallels between ...
Cognition, Education, and Deafness
... Deaf Students Janis Morariu Roger Bruning The often heated controversy in deaf education concerning language ac- quisition continues to pervade the literature on cognition , education , and deafness . Two major questions have emerged ...
Language Learning and Deafness
... deafness ( " The Remote and Proximate Causes of Deafness , " American Annals of the Deaf , 1856 ; in Moores , 1978 ) , reporting the age of onset for 284 students in 13 schools for the deaf - 9 in Europe and 4 in the United States . If ...
American Annals of the Deaf
... deaf child . For instance , the marriage producing seven deaf children , one of those producing six , and three of those pro- ducing five , were marriages in which one of the partners was a hearing person . But why should marriages ...
Teaching the Deaf and Dumb
... deaf children to speak . On account of their deafness they are unable to pick up speech in the ordinary way by imitating the utterances of those around them . They therefore remain " mute " or " dumb " until specially instructed by ...
American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb
... deafness and the ap- prehension that it might have the same effect in her case , added much to her concern . Her first child was deaf and dumb , and also her third and fourth . The other neighbor , Mr. L. , who had two deaf children ...
Ethics in Mental Health and Deafness
... deaf clinician . The added dimension of being deaf and con- nected with the deaf community brings with it a host of treatment consid- erations and lifestyle issues that deaf clinicians would do well to consider carefully in the interest ...
Mental Health in Deafness
... deaf interviewees vis - a - vis deaf versus nondeaf interviewers , focus- ing on the preference - for aspect of the experi- ence , one study found that only one in five deaf college students make a clear choice for a deaf counselor ( 9 ) ...
Sign 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.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica
... deaf and dumb . The other brother has had six children , the first , third , and fifth of whom can hear , while the second , fourth , and probably the sixth ( an infant ) are deaf and ... deaf no art could ever reach DEAF AND DUMB 5.
When the Mind Hears
The authoritative statement on the deaf, their education, and their struggle against prejudice.
What Is It Like to Be Deaf?
"Follows the everyday lives of several Deaf school children, describing what they do in school, how they communicate with both hearing and Deaf relatives and friends, what they do for fun, and what being part of the Deaf community means to ...
Parliamentary Papers
... deaf and dumb , and a positive advantage to the deaf and dumb boys to be with the hearing boys ? -I think so . 3782. The Chairman . - Do the deaf and dumb boys and the hearing boys mix in the playground ? - Not so freely as we would ...
The Volta Review
... Deaf ...... School for the Deaf ..... Maine School for the Deaf ...... F. Knapp's English and German Institute . St. Francis Xavier's School for the Deaf ... Maryland School for the Deaf and Dumb ... Home School for Little Deaf Children ...
Reports to the General Assembly of Illinois at Its ... Regular Session
... deaf and dumb , while the general terms of " mutes , " the " deaf and dumb , " or the " deaf , " are interchangeably em- ployed to designate persons who are compelled by reason of deafness to enter our school . Still another class ...
The Salesianum
... deaf leniency should be urged . But in the great majority of cases the deaf are mentally , morally and legally responsible , and it is a great injustice to the class to presume a deaf- mute accused of crime incapable and ...
Annual Report of the Inspector of Asylums, Prisons, and Public Charities
... deaf - mutes in the world is nearly 1,500,000 . " MARRIAGE OF DEAF - MUTES . This seems to be a subject of some importance just now on this continent and in England . It is being discussed by a number of interested persons with a ...
Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Michigan
... deaf to par- ticipate in the games of the school ground . The benefits would not stop with the deaf child , but we would see exemplified the Added old truth , " It is better to give than to receive . " The spirit of Benefits . altruism ...
The Mid-Pacific Magazine
... Deafness is said to be either con- genital or acquired ; that is , a child is either born deaf or becomes deaf from some cause operating after birth . There are many causes for deafness , but I will not deal with them . There are also ...