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The Deaf Experience: Classics in Language and Education Harlan Lane New edition
The Deaf Experience: Classics in Language and Education
Harlan Lane
Presents a selection of the earliest essays written by members of the nascent French Deaf community at the time of the Enlightenment, from 1764 up to 1840, a rich period of education for deaf people. This work shows how this era of French deaf education influenced the adoption of the manual method by the first schools for deaf students in America.
Marc Notes: Bibl. ref. & index.; Paperback reprint of the 1984 cloth ed. Publisher Marketing: This collection of essays written between 1764 and 1849 includes some of the earliest known publications on the topics of education and communication of the deaf--from members of the French Deaf community as well as from hearing educators. The essays include autobiographies by community leaders de Fontenay and Massieu, detailed descriptions of teac Review Citations:
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2006 pg. 180 (EAN 9781563682865, Paperback)
Contributor Bio: Lane, Harlan Lane is the George J. Matthews and Kathleen Water Matthews University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University. Contributor Bio: Philip, Franklin Franklin Philip is winner of the 1989 Translation Prize of the French-American Foundation for The Statue Within: An Autobiography. He lives in Paris.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 15, 2006 |
| ISBN13 | 9781563682865 |
| Publishers | Gallaudet University Press,U.S. |
| Genre | Cultural Region > French |
| Pages | 232 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 16 mm · 399 g |
| Translator | Franklin, Philip |
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