Deaf History Unveiled
Deaf History Unveiled

Author: John V. Van Cleve

Publisher: Gallaudet University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781563680878

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Since the early 1970s, when Deaf history as a formal discipline did not exist, the study of Deaf people, their culture and language, and how hearing societies treated them has exploded. Deaf History Unveiled: Interpretations from the New Scholarship presents the latest findings from the new scholars mining this previously neglected, rich field of inquiry. The sixteen essays featured in Deaf History Unveiled include the work of Harlan Lane, Renate Fischer, Margret A. Winzer, William McCagg, and twelve other noted historians who presented their research at the First International Conference on Deaf History in 1991.

When the Mind Hears
When the Mind Hears

Author: Harlan Lane

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2010-08-04

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 0307874710

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The authoritative statement on the deaf, their education, and their struggle against prejudice.

Abbé Sicard's Deaf Education
Abbé Sicard's Deaf Education

Author: Emmet Kennedy

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1137512865

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Abbé Sicard was a French revolutionary priest and an innovator of French and American sign language. He enjoyed a meteoric rise from Toulouse and Bordeaux to Paris and, despite his non-conformist tendencies, he escaped the guillotine. In fact, the revolutionaries acknowledged his position and during the Terror of 1794, they made him the director of the first school for the deaf. Later, he became a member of the first Ecole Normale, the National Institute, and the Académie Française. He is recognized today as having developed Enlightenment theories of pantomime, "signing,' and a form of "universal language" that later spread to Russia, Spain, and America. This is the first book-length biography of Sicard published in any language since 1873, despite Sicard’s international renown. This thoughtful, engaging work explores French and American sign language and deaf studies set against the backdrop of the French Revolution and Napoleon.