Edwards, R. A. R.

Words made flesh nineteenth-century deaf education and the growth of deaf culture / [electronic resource] : R.A.R. Edwards. - New York : New York University Press, c2012. - vii, 255 p. - History of disability . - History of disability series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc: a Yale man and a deaf man open a school and create a world -- Manual education: an American beginning -- Learning to be deaf: lessons from the residential school -- The deaf way: living a deaf life -- Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe: the first American oralists -- Languages of signs: methodical versus natural.


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Deaf--Education--History--United States--19th century.
Deaf culture--History--United States--19th century.
Deaf--Social conditions--United States--19th century.


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