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  | | Song Without Words Discovering My Deafness Halfway through Life (A Merloyd Lawrence Book) by Gerald Shea Paperback, Published by Da Capo Press ISBN-13: 978-0-306-82294-0, ISBN: 0-306-82294-6 |
 | | The Language of Light A History of Silent Voices by Gerald Shea Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2017 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-21543-4, ISBN: 0-300-21543-6 "A comprehensive history of deafness, signed languages, and the unresolved struggles of the Deaf to be taught in their unspoken tongue Partially deaf due to a childhood illness, Gerald Shea is no stranger to the search for communicative grace and clarity. In this eloquent and thoroughly researched book, he uncovers the centuries-long struggle of the Deaf to be taught in sign language—the only language that renders them complete, fully co ..." |
 | | The Language of Light A History of Silent Voices by Gerald Shea 280 Pages, Published 2017 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-23169-4, ISBN: 0-300-23169-5 "So the declaration of the Milan Congress was dramatically wrong on all counts. And yet almost everyone, and predominantly teachers of the Deaf, voted for it. Why? Balestra made the old religious arguments to help win over the clerical educators. Following Christ's example, depicted in the prayerbook of Saint Hildegarde, the priest must “open the mouth of the deaf.”16 Tarra clearly didn't know Italian sign language, or knew it only ..." |
 | | Song Without Words Discovering My Deafness Halfway through Life (A Merloyd Lawrence Book) by Gerald Shea Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2013 by Da Capo Press ISBN-13: 978-0-306-82193-6, ISBN: 0-306-82193-1 "Much has been written about the profoundly deaf, but the lives of the nearly 30 million partially deaf people in the United States today remain hidden. Song without Words tells the astonishing story of a man who, at the age of thirty-four, discovered that he had been deaf since childhood, yet somehow managed to navigate his way through Andover, Yale, and Columbia Law School, and to establish a prestigious international legal career.Gera ..." |
 | | Song Without Words Discovering My Deafness Halfway Through Life by Gerald Shea 320 Pages, Published 2013 by Da Capo Press ISBN-13: 978-0-306-82194-3, ISBN: 0-306-82194-X "Discovering My Deafness Halfway through Life Gerald Shea. into words,” as in his this ... The mondegreens play with the misheard phrases and accompany them with illustrations (a crosseyed baby, a bald wife), but we struggle with them, whether sung or spoken, in noise or in quiet, amusing or not. Lyricals are not just the child of damaged cochlear cells but also the product of the lipreading we, the partially deaf, practice in order ..." |