Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language : Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard.

Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language : Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard.

From the seventeenth century to the early years of the twentieth, the population of Martha's Vineyard manifested an extremely high rate of profound hereditary deafness. In stark contrast to the experience of most Deaf people in our own society, the Vineyarders who were born Deaf were so thoroug...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Groce, Nora E.
Other Authors: Whiting, John W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Deaf people > Massachusetts > Martha's Vineyard > History.
Deaf peopleness > Genetic aspects.
Sign language.
Deafness > Genetic aspects.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics.
Deaf
Deafness > Genetic aspects
Sign language
Massachusetts > Martha's Vineyard
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • 1.“They Were Just Like Everyone Elseâ€?
  • 2. The History of Marthaâ€?s Vineyard
  • 3. The Origins of Vineyard Deafness
  • 4. The Genetics of Vineyard Deafness
  • 5. The Island Adaptation to Deafness
  • 6. Growing Up Deaf on the Vineyard
  • 7. Deafness in Historical Perspective
  • 8. “Those People Werenâ€?t Handicappedâ€?
  • Appendix A. Oral and Written Sources
  • Appendix B. Perceived Causes of Vineyard Deafness
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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