BOOKS
BY DR PADDY LADD
This text presents a "Traveller's Guide" to deaf culture, starting from the premise that deaf cultures have an important contribution to make to other academic disciplines, and human lives in general.
BY HARLAN LANE
Traces the history of the deaf through the eyes of Laurent Clerc, a deaf Frenchman who was the intellectual leader of the deaf community in France, then in America.
BY HARLAN LANE
A piercing look at the gulf that separates the Deaf minority from the hearing world, this passionate classic is essential reading for people who want to understand the gap between these two cultures.
BY ILYA KAMINSKY
Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?
BY RAYMOND ANTROBUS
An extraordinary debut from a young British-Jamaican poet, The Perseverance is a book of loss, language and praise.
BY RICHARD FRANCE
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
A History Through Deaf Eyes: Language and Identity - an online exhibition from Gallaudet University
Learn more about how Oralism, Alexander Graham Bell and Eugenics impacted Deaf people, their culture and history
Lost Spaces 2015-16 Impact on the Bristol Deaf Community by Deaf Studies Trust, Bristol
In 2008, the Bristol Deaf community was a thriving, active and integrated community of sign language users. By 2014, it had lost its centre, all its services, all of its staff and had fragmented into small interest ad-hoc groups meeting in varying locations. The Lost Spaces project team in conjunction with the Deaf Studies Trust, set out to analyse the remaining community feeling and to repair the damage of the previous years.
Case Study About Raising Deaf Children - Oralist Model vs. Bilingual Model by Dr. Jim Kyle
Language Deprivation Syndrome: A Possible Neurodevelopmental Disorder with Sociocultural Origins by Wyatte C. Hall, Leonard L. Levin, and Melissa L. Anderson
There is a need to better understand the epidemiological relationship between language development and psychiatric symptomatology. Language development can be particularly impacted by social factors, as seen in the developmental choices made for deaf children which can create language deprivation. A possible mental health syndrome may be present in deaf patients with severe language deprivation.
Oralism & The Royal School for the Deaf, Margate
Nina describes how decisions made at a conference in Milan in 1880 may have harmed the education of deaf children for a century, and describes her own experience of becoming deaf and beginning to learn BSL.
Must the Sign Language Go? by Edward M. Gallaudet
An 8 page essay for the American Annals of the Deaf in 1899, by Edward M. Gallaudet, the son of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, founder of the first school for deaf students in the United States, and president of Gallaudet College in Washington DC.
Sign on Europe by Centre for Deaf Studies
A Study of Deaf People and Sign Language in the European Union
DeafHealth: A UK Collaborative Study into the Health of Deaf People,carried out by Centre for Deaf Studies, & School of Social and Community Medicine at University of Bristol and Deaf Studies Trust, Bristol - Executive report
Full Report – Part 1 – Analysis of the health assessments of 300 deaf people
Full Report Part 2 – Interviews and Workshops
Changing the Community: Interpreter Training and its Impact of the Deaf and Hearing Community by Jim Kyle and Eva Fielding-Jackson, Centre for Deaf Studies, University of Bristol
This paper deals with the provision of training for sign language interpreters and the assessment of the impact of this training and the perceived benefits and changes within the deaf community in this period.
Sound and Fury: A Profile on Dr Paddy Ladd, pioneer and activist, taking 'deaf culture' to a wider audience by Raekha Prasad (19 March 2003).