Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture (The History of Disability)

by R. A. R. Edwards

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During the early nineteenth century, schools for the deaf appeared in the United States for the first time. These schools were committed to the use of the sign language to educate deaf students. Manual education made the growth of the deaf community possible, for it gathered deaf people together in sizable numbers for the first time in American history. It also fueled the emergence of Deaf culture, as the schools became agents of cultural transformations.
Just as the Deaf community began to be recognized as a minority culture, in the 1850s, a powerful movement arose to undo it, namely...

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  • ISBN10 0814722431
  • ISBN13 9780814722435
  • Publish Date 26 March 2012
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint New York University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 263
  • Language English