Literacy and deaf people : cultural and contextual perspectives

Brueggemann, Brenda Jo, 1958- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1563682710 : HRD
Physical Description: print
vi, 219 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, 2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction : reframing deaf people's literacy / Brenda Jo Brueggemann -- Pt. I. "Modernizing" deaf selves and deaf education : histories and habits -- The modern deaf self : indigenous practices and educational imperatives / Tom Humphries -- What does culture have to do with the education of students who are deaf or hard of hearing? / Claire Ramsey -- Double jeopardy : women, deafness, and deaf education / Susan Burch -- Deaf, she wrote : mapping deaf women's autobiography / Brenda Jo Brueggemann -- Pt. II. Multicultural and bilingual perspectives -- The relationship between language experience and language development : a report from Norway / Elizabeth Engen and Trygg Engen -- Deaf immigrant and refugee children : institutional and cultural clash / C. Tane Akamatsu and Ester Cole -- Cultural and linguistic voice in the deaf bilingual experience / Lillian Buffalo Tompkins -- Struggling for a voice : an interactionist view of language and literacy in deaf education / Sherman Wilcox -- English literacy in the life stories of deaf college undergraduates / Kathleen M. Wood.