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Bagga-Gupta, Sangeeta – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2010
This article brings together salient findings regarding communication and identity through studies of everyday social practices, studies of discourses about these practices and policy documents pertaining to special schools from "previous" and "ongoing" ethnographic projects based at the KKOM-DS (Communication, Culture and…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Swedish, Special Schools, Sign Language
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Miller, Katrina R. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2008
American Sign Language (ASL) is a visual-gestural language identified as the first or natural language of many persons who are deaf in the United States. For over 200 years, it has been the focal point of a heated controversy regarding optimal teaching methodologies for deaf children in the American elementary and secondary educational systems.…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Deafness, American Sign Language, Teaching Methods