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Krentz, Christopher – Sign Language Studies, 2023
The last sixty years have been a time of tumultuous change in the American deaf community. Two deaf figures who made a great difference during this period were Frank Bowe and Jack Gannon, who passed away in 2007 and 2022, respectively. Bowe was a prominent disability rights leader, helping to secure more rights for deaf and all disabled Americans,…
Descriptors: Deafness, United States History, Civil Rights, Sign Language
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Cristián Iturriaga – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2025
The educational inclusion of deaf students in England is usually interpreted as placement in mainstream settings alongside hearing students, creating unintended pressure for assimilation to the communicative needs of hearing people. In this context, it is deaf students and their communication support staff who are left to deal with communicative…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Inclusion, Deafness, Oral Communication Method
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O'Connell, Noel Patrick; Deegan, Jim – Irish Educational Studies, 2014
Historically, the valuing of deaf children's voices on their own schooling has been underrepresented in educational policies, curriculum frameworks and discursive practices and, in particular, in the debates and controversies surrounding oralism and Irish Sign Language in deaf education in Ireland. This article discusses children's everyday lived…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Sign Language, Ethnography
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Grupido, Natalie – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1994
This narrative of a graduate student with deafness describes her experiences in various educational environments including oral communication, total communication, and mainstreamed. The article emphasizes the role of parents as the child's best advocates and advises parents to trust their own instincts and not accept the authority of professionals…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Rearing, Deafness, Delivery Systems
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Stokoe, William C. – Sign Language Studies, 1995
Suggests how insights from Paul Bohannon's book, "How Culture Works" (1995), could be used to address such questions as, "How do deaf people learn their culture?" and "How do deaf children learn (what) culture?" Bohannon's idea of cultural dynamics is applied to deaf culture to trace how that culture evolved, how it…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Boarding Schools, Cultural Maintenance, Culture