The deaf community in the West has endured radical changes in the past centuries. This work of history tracks the changes both in the education of and the socia

Written by authors who are themselves Deaf, this unique book illuminates the life and culture of Deaf people from the inside, through their everyday talk, their

Using original sources, this unique book focuses on the Deaf community during the 19th century. Largely through schools for the deaf, deaf people began to devel

Introduction to American Deaf Culture provides a fresh perspective on what it means to be Deaf in contemporary hearing society. The book offers an overview of D

The time has come for a new in-depth encyclopedic collection of articles defining the current state of Deaf Studies at an international level and using the crit