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Deaf Like Me is a biographical book about a family who discovers their daughter, Lynn, is deaf, and deals with a language barrier. It was written by Thomas and James Spradley, Lynn's father and uncle, and originally published in 1979. It begins in November 1964, before Lynn was born, and ends in August 1975, when she was ten.
James P. Spradley (1933–1982) was a social scientist and a professor of anthropology at Macalester College. [1] Spradley wrote or edited 20 books on ethnography and qualitative research including The Cultural Experience: Ethnography in Complex Society (1972), Deaf Like Me (1979), The Ethnographic Interview (1979), and Participant Observation (1980).
Residential schools for deaf children serve as a vital link in the transmission of the rich culture and language, seeing as they are ideal environments for children to acquire and master sign language and pass on Deaf cultural values. [6] Like all educational settings, these environments are key to providing deaf children valuable life lessons ...
Download as PDF; Printable version ... Pages in category "Works about deaf people" ... out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Deaf Like Me; H ...
My father looked me over, and as he stood there for what felt like a very long time, I was sure he was going to hand me my head. And not on a platter. "I'll tell you what I'm going to do," he said ...
American Sign Language literature (ASL literature) is one of the most important shared cultural experiences in the American deaf community.Literary genres initially developed in residential Deaf institutes, such as American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut, [1] which is where American Sign Language developed as a language in the early 19th century. [2]
It seems like the last time researchers got excited about this topic was over half a century ago. I came across four studies from the ’60s. ... One concluded that deaf drivers were safer than ...
The New York Jets, the team the Giants share a stadium with but act like they’re better than, have one fewer win over that span. Only the Jacksonville Jaguars have won less often. That is the ...