Part I. Cultural and Language Diversity: An Overview: 1. On interpreting the deaf experience within the context of cultural and language diverstiy Ila Parasnis 2. Living with two languages and two cultures Francois Grosjean 3. Perspectives from the history and the politics of bilingualism and bilingual education in the United States Kenji Hakuta and Elizabeth Feldman Mostafapour 4. Cognitive and language development of bilingual children Josiane F. Hamers Part II. Cultural and Language Diversity: Impact on the Deaf Experience: 5. From the cultural to the bicultural: the modern deaf community Carol A. Padden 6. Early bilingual lives of deaf children Carol A. Padden 7. Communication experiences of deaf people: an ethnographic account Susan Foster 8. Marginality, biculturalism and social identity of deaf people R. Greg Emerton 9. Attitudes of the deaf community toward political activism Gerry C. Bateman 10. Cultural and language diversity in the curriculum: toward reflective practice Bonnie Meath-Lang 11. Minority empowerment and the education of deaf people Joan B. Stone 12. Social assimilation of deaf High School students: the role of school environment Thomas K. Holcomb Part III. Cultural and Language Diversity: Reflections on the Deaf Experience: 13. Growing up deaf in deaf families: two different experiences Susan C. Searls and David Johnston 14. Another new birth: reflections of a deaf native singer Patrick Graybill 15. Raising deaf children in a hearing society: struggles and challenges for deaf signers Gary E. Mowl 16. In search of self: experiences of a post-lingually deaf African-American Dianne K. Brooks 17. Living in a bilingual-bicultural family Lynn Finton 18. On being both hearing and deaf: my bilingual-bicultural Patricia Mudgett-DeCaro.
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