Words made flesh [electronic resource] : nineteenth-century deaf education and the growth of deaf culture / R.A.R. Edwards.
Series: History of disability seriesPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2012.Description: vii, 255 pISBN:- 9780814722435 (cl : alk. paper)
- 9780914722434
- 9780814724033 (e-book)
- 371.91/20973 23
- HV2530 .E39 2012eb

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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.