[PDF.57bu] Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard

Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard

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 | #97163 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  1985 |  1988-04-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.93 x.49 x6.00l,.45 | File type: PDF | 169 pages

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||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Not Just a Book About Sign Language, But Quite Interesting|By Brian S. Shaffer|I initially read this book 20 odd years ago for a class and found it very interesting. It really isn't just a book about sign language, but a combination of early history of Martha's Vineyard, seafaring, societal norms, social perceptions, deafness, sign language, with a sampling of population genet| |When is deafness neither handicap nor stigma? When, as this remarkable book recounts, the entire hearing community learns from childhood to be bilingual in conventional speech and sign language, and when the deaf are wholly integrated into the community's soci

From the seventeenth century to the early years of the twentieth, the population of Martha's Vineyard manifested an extremely high rate of profound hereditary deafness. In stark contrast to the experience of most deaf people in our own society, the Vineyarders who were born deaf were so thoroughly integrated into the daily life of the community that they were not seen--and did not see themselves--as handicapped or as a group apart. Deaf people were included in all asp...

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