Signs of Hope : Deafhearing Family Life.

By:

West, Donna

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (282 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781443837064
1443837067
1280486287
9781280486289
9786613581266
6613581267

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Signs of Hope : Deafhearing Family Life.DDC classification:

362.42

LOC classification:

HV2380 .W47 2012

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Contents:

Table of contents; list of illustrations; foreword; acknowledgements; prologue; introduction; chapter one; intertext i; chapter two; intertext ii; chapter three; intertext iii; chapter four; intertext iv; chapter five; intertext v; chapter six; epilogue; notes; bibliography; index.

Summary: Signs of Hope tells the story of a narrative inquiry with three deafhearing families. For many of us, deafness represents loss and silence. For others, being deaf is a genetic quirk; an opportunity for learning, spiritual adventure and reward. For yet others, it is the most natural thing in the world; a connection to a genealogical layer of signing ancestors and the continuation of a culture. Amid the noise of mainstream, medical and educational discourses of deafness, here are family voices ...

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Signs of Hope tells the story of a narrative inquiry with three deafhearing families. For many of us, deafness represents loss and silence. For others, being deaf is a genetic quirk; an opportunity for learning, spiritual adventure and reward. For yet others, it is the most natural thing in the world; a connection to a genealogical layer of signing ancestors and the continuation of a culture. Amid the noise of mainstream, medical and educational discourses of deafness, here are family voices ...