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Deaf Culture and Linguistics
These products are designed for teachers and TAFE students and focus on deaf culture and history; and on advanced Auslan linguistics.

+ Enlarge Image GuDamnedDiff	Damned for Their Difference - The Cultural Construction of Deaf People as Disabled Authors: Jan Branson (National Institute of Deaf Studies, La Trobe Uni) and Don Mill (Head of Anthropology, Monash Uni) This Australian book provides a Sociological understanding of disabling practices that combines history and biography with the study of social structures and processes. This book will help you gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be deaf, and how Deaf people are treated differently and marginalised by others. Non stocked Item. Approx. delivery time: 3 weeks
		Qty x $93.24
+ Enlarge Image GuDeafMe	Deaf Like Me Written by the uncle and father of a little girl who happens to be deaf, this story sensitively weaves reality and learning in with a fairly simple account of coming to terms with deafness, and the family's fight to teach their deaf daughter to speak. A moving story of how a deaf girl breaks the chains of ignorance and prejudice that held her mute for years- to discover the world she cannot hear and to teach her family what love and being normal really mean. This new edition contains a special epilogue by Lynn Spradley, grown and in her twenties. This epilogue is excellent and adds a distinct new dimension to the entire book. by Thomas S. Spradley and James P. Spradley. Published 1985, revised 1989
		Qty x $31.95
+ Enlarge Image OpenEyes	Open Your Eyes Open Your Eyes introduces readers to the key concepts and debates in deaf studies, offering perspectives on the relevance and richness of deaf ways of being in the world. Leading and emerging scholars, the majority of whom are deaf, consider physical and cultural boundaries of deaf people; they explore the role of gender, sexuality, disability, family and race. They explore literacy in the light of sign language and delve into the dimensions of the disability label often assigned to deafness. This book shows how culture contributes vital insights on issues of identity, language and power; and ultimately challenges our culture's obsession with normalcy. This is an American book. The editor, Professor Dirksen Bauman is a professor of Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University. While the book is written from the American perspective it is just as applicable to Australian Deaf Culture as it is American.
		Qty x $44.95
+ Enlarge Image SeeVoices	Seeing Voices - Oliver Sacks With Seeing Voices, Dr. Sacks launches on a journey into the world of the deaf, which he explores with passion and insight. Seeing Voices begins with the history of deaf people in the United States, the often outrageous ways in which they have been seen and treated in the past, and their continuing struggle for acceptance in a hearing world. And it examines the amazing and beautiful visual language of the deaf Sign which has only in the past decade been recognized fully as a language, linguistically complete, rich, and as expressive as any spoken language. "The existence of a visual language, Sign, and of the striking enhancements of perception and visual intelligence that go with its acquisition, shows us that the brain is rich in potentials we would scarcely have guessed of, shows us the almost unlimited resource of the human organism when it is faced with the new and must adapt." Oliver Slacks
		Qty x $29.50
+ Enlarge Image HClossWords	A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family by Ann Lou Walker, Published September 1987 In this remarkable memoir, Walker recreates the pain and the joy of growing up between two worlds: her deaf parents' loving but silent home, and the often confusing world she encountered outside those walls, and of which she was inevitably a part.
		Qty x $32.99
+ Enlarge Image ConstDeaf	Constructing Deafness This book examines how deafness and deaf people are viewed within education, linguists, social political, as well as presented within film and fiction. It examines the perspective of deaf people themselves and current issues within a historical perspective. How are recent developments challenging established ideologies? Edited by Susan Gregory and Gillian Hartley in the UK. This book was first published in 1991. This is the 2002 reprinted edition.
		Qty x $76.99
+ Enlarge Image MindHears	When the Mind Hears - A History of the Deaf Traces the history of the deaf through the eyes of Laurent Clerc, a deaf Frenchman who was the intellectual leader of the deaf community in France, then in America.
		Qty x $39.95
+ Enlarge Image GuDamnedDiff	Damned for Their Difference - The Cultural Construction of Deaf People as Disabled Authors: Jan Branson (National Institute of Deaf Studies, La Trobe Uni) and Don Mill (Head of Anthropology, Monash Uni) This Australian book provides a Sociological understanding of disabling practices that combines history and biography with the study of social structures and processes. This book will help you gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be deaf, and how Deaf people are treated differently and marginalised by others. Non stocked Item. Approx. delivery time: 3 weeks
		Qty x $93.24
+ Enlarge Image HBLAM	Look At Me - Deaf Awareness book Each page of this delightful Deaf Awareness book features a short universal message about deafness, Deaf people, culture and community. Each accompanied by a striking image by Deaf Photographer Steve Wellman. This hard cover book includes 150 pages and is the perfect addition to every waiting room and coffee table.
		Qty x $10.00
+ Enlarge Image DFHearNeed	Hearing the Need Hearing the Need is an account of the momentous changes that have occurred in the lives of deaf and hearing impaired Australians since the 1950s. It records the achievements of an Australian community in the area of education, technological developments and legal rights.
		Qty x $49.00
+ Enlarge Image CBASL	Australian Sign Language: An introduction to sign language linguistics This book is a comprehensive introduction to the linguistics of Auslan. It explores each key aspect of the structure of Auslan, providing an overview to grammar, phonology, morphology, lexicon, semantics and discourse.
		Qty x $80.00
+ Enlarge Image FPSLI2	Sign Language Interpreting - Theory and Practice in Australia 2nd Edition This is the 2nd Edition of Sign Language Interpreting, released in 2010. Sign Language Interpreters, service providers and educators will be familiar with American texts on sign language interpreting; however much of the information is specific to American professionals. This Australian text is especially for Australian professionals. Non stocked Item. Approx. delivery time: 3 weeks
		Qty x $65.00