A full account of Dr. Jean-Marc Itard's work, in the early 1800s, with Victor, who had lived wild for twelve years, and of the resulting educational, psychological, anthropological, and philosophical
Laurent Clerc won lasting renown as the deaf teacher who helped Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet establish schools to educate deaf Americans in the 19th century. Now, his character as a young boy growing up i
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
The extraordinary and untold story of John Brewster Jr., a preeminent Deaf American artistUntil his death 150 years ago, John Brewster Jr. was one of the most prominent portrait painters in America.
The seminal study of the antecedents of Deaf culture is now back in print. Edited by renowned scholar Harlan Lane, The Deaf Experience: Classics in Language and Education presents a selection of the
What are ethnic group: Are Deaf people who sign American Sign Language (ASL) an ethnic group? In The People of the Eye, Deaf studies, history, cultural anthropology, genetics, sociology, and disabilit
