Editors Arne H. Eide (a rehabilitation specialist affiliated with Sor-Trondelag University College, both located in Norway) and Benedicte Ingstad (medical anthropology, U. of Oslo) are or have been af
"Tuesday has a personality that shines. I am not kidding when I say it is common for people to pull out their cell phones and take pictures of and with him. Tuesday is that kind of dog. And then, in p
d/Deaf and d/Dumb chronicles the author’s dumb, ‘deaf kid’ origins in Bayport, New York to his current life as a «young superhero» writer. Portraying the conflicting cultural worlds of hearing and Dea
In this memoir, Valente (early childhood education, Pennsylvania State U.) recounts his experiences as a deaf person, with deaf culture, and becoming a deaf studies scholar. Using techniques of autobi
Introduction to Auditory Rehabilitation: A Contemporary Issues Approach provides students with a solid foundation of essential auditory rehabilitation concepts, knowledge, and skills within the contex
The field of deaf studies, language, and education has grown dramatically over the past forty years. From work on the linguistics of sign language and parent-child interactions to analyses of school p
This is the first book on working with disabled people to take an aspirational, outcomes-focused approach to professional practice. It forms the first attempt to grapple with the massive legislative
This is the autobiography of Malini Chib—a woman who defied all odds to emerge victorious in spite of a crippling disability and an indifferent society; who dragged herself out of the limits of her co
Hard of hearing since early childhood, John Christiansen spent the first 30 years of his life trying to fit in to a hearing world that did little to accommodate his communication needs. Although he e
In His First Memoir, Madan Vasishta described being a deaf boy in his home-land of India, where "deaf" meant someone who is not human. After rising from herding cattle to being a respected photographe
This is the first book on working with disabled people to take an aspirational, outcomes-focused approach to professional practice. It forms the first attempt to grapple with the massive legislative a
Disability is often described in a way that suggests that it is a permanent and relatively stable state. Many concepts and models of disability suggest this. Even when it is described as being sociall
Combining ethnology and memoir, this fascinating book describes the issues surrounding childbirth and motherhood for disabled women. The author, a paraplegic, tells about her own hunt for medical advi
This is a biography of Dorothy Harrison Eustis(1886-1946), founder of The Seeing Eye, the first guide dog school in the United States. The work relies on newspaper articles, family correspondence, spe
?Henry Kisor lost his hearing at age three to meningitis and encephalitis but went on to excel in the most verbal of professions as a literary journalist. This new and expanded edition of Kisor's engr
Understanding Disability is a core text on understanding and working with disabled clients. It is an integrative and comprehensive text of the history, current status, theory, and practice implicatio
