"Inside Deaf Culture relates deaf people's search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self-description as a flourishing culture. Padden and Humphries show how the nineteenth-century schools for the deaf, with their denigration of sign language and their insistence on oralist teaching, shaped the lives of deaf people for generations to come. They describe how deaf culture and art thrived in mid-twentieth century deaf clubs and deaf theatre, and profile controversial contemporary technologies." Cf. Publisher's description.
A guide to American Sign Language that covers facial grammar; courtesy phrases; vocabulary building; taking classes; the deaf community; numbers; conversational signs; practicing; discussing time; leisure activities; directional verbs and communication; technology; classifiers; organizations; poems and humor; and traveling.
Contains photographs that illustrate over three hundred words in American Sign Language, grouped in categories such as money, family, animals, school, party, and others, and includes the alphabet and numbers.
