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Theatre for the Deaf

actress Anne Bancroft, who had one a Tony Award for her performance as Helen Kellers teacher Anne Sullivan in The Miracle Worker (...

Mainstreaming and Schools for the Deaf

inclusive educational practices. Their concerns are forged out of their struggles to get appropriate educational services for thei...

Deafness and Differing Perceptions

of the physical changes that can be made to repair or improve a deaf persons ability to perceive sound. For example, the developme...

What a Mind Hears by Harlan Lane

deaf teacher who was brought to the U.S. by Thomas Gallaudet. Clerc believed strongly in the use of sign language and also in int...

An Overview of American Sign Language

In 1994, estimates suggest that upwards of 500,000 deaf Americans incorporated ASL into their daily communications, while many oth...

Deaf and Hearing Impaired Speech Training

child improve their intonation, pitch and duration of speech sounds (St. Joseph Institute, 2001). This paper discusses speech tr...

Barriers to Communication for Deaf Children

rather than concentrating on the disabled individual as having "deficits" within themselves (the medical model). They look at the ...

Thomas S. Spradley and James P. Spradley's Deaf Like Me

They discovered that their daughter was deaf and they immediately began trying to get her to communicate in an oral world. Afte...

Oliver Sacks' 'Seeing Voices'

This is a 3 page paper that considers the text that examines the Deaf. There are 2 sources in the bibliography....

Children Who Are Orally Deaf Speech Evaluation

cochlea and, in turn, electrical signals are passed on to the acoustic (auditory) nerve where they travel to the brain (Bowdler an...

Hendrick Hudson v. Rowley (1982)

the States must fulfill in order to receive federal funds under the Education of the Handicapped Act (subsequently referred as "th...

Deaf Child and the Impact Upon a Hearing Sibling

sisters" (Lobato, et al, 1991, p. 398). While studies that have focused on the siblings of handicapped children are rare, there ...

Speech Pathology 3 Scenarios

bloomer from a child with expressive language disorder at an early age. There are, however, many speech pathology assessment ins...

Preparing Children to Take Music Lessons

in reaching deaf and blind children who would otherwise tune out. When used to help children learn basic skills, it is referred to...

The Deaf of Martha’s Vineyard

- virtually all of them knew it - so that they could "talk" to their deaf friends (Groce). Not only that, but when Groce interview...

Communication Mode Decisions for Education Deaf Students

an entirely different framework by which progress is judged. As it can be difficult to regulate such matters, South Australia has ...

Instruction of the Deaf, A Film Analysis

to abide by her decision to communicate only in sign language. Young children acquire language skills by listening. From the tim...

Working with the Deaf-Blind and "The Miracle Worker"

This essay offers analysis and discussion of "The Miracle Worker" by William Gibson. The writer relates this material to current d...

"Music Within," The Story of Richard Pimentel

This essay presents a movie review of "Music Within," (2007, directed by Steven Sawalich). The film stars Ron Livingston as Richa...

Deaf Ministry

two-week Sign Language School, which is offered by the International Sign Language Schools (ISLS) and conducted each year at the A...

Autobiography of Helen Keller

This paper concerns the autobiography of Helen Keller, which recounts her struggle to overcome being blind and deaf. Three pages i...

ADA Regulations, Services to Deaf, Hard of Hearing

This essay pertains to Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which requires that interpreter services must be ma...

Thomas and James Spradley's Deaf Like Me

how this is often the fault of the parents and society that insist they should be able to live in such a hearing world. The follow...

A Review of Deaf Like Me

A 5 page review of the book by Thomas Spradley and James Spradley. 1 source....

Deaf Students and the Teaching of Music

In 5 pages this paper considers how to teach music to students with impaired hearing in an examination of various approaches. T...

Homeless Women's Plights and Tell Them Who I Am by Elliot Liebow

In five pages homeless women and their plights are examined within the context of the sensitive portrayal offered in Elliot Liebow...

Analyzing 'I Am a Catholic' by Anna Quindlen

In two pages Catholicism's traditional meaning is contrasted with the view presented in Quindlen's contemporary interpretation....

Male Bonding in I Am One of You Forever by Fred Chappell

In five pages the bonding of men as examined from the author's Southern perspective is analyzed....

Symbolic Speech and I Am an Impure Thinker by Eugen Rosenstock Huessy

In six pages various chapters of Rosenstock Huessy's text are examined in an examination of how symbolic speech is represented. T...

A Review of I Am Rene Espronceda de la Barca

A 5 page review of the short story that was included in the book And We Sold the Rain.The three mysteries presented by the author ...