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In 1964, of the more than 85 million telephones in the United States and Canada, less than one percent were used regularly by deaf people. If they didn't ask their hearing neighbors for help, they depended upon their hearing children, some as young as three years old, to act as intermediaries for business calls or medical consultations. In that same year, three enterprising deaf men, Robert H. Weitbrecht, James C. Marsters, and Andrew Saks, st...

Deaf Audiences Captions and the Long Struggle for Access. Documents the struggles and strategies over nearly a century to make spoken communication accessible through the use of captioning technology.

Over the past 30 years, the number of deaf persons studying in colleges and universities has increased from several hundred to more than 12, 000. Yet, attitudinal barriers continue to make it difficult for deaf people to enter some fields. This volume provides detailed biographical entries on 150 outstanding deaf individuals, highlighting their contributions to the arts and sciences. It includes several Nobel Prize laureate scientists, an Acad...

Homesteader in Iowa, a 49er in the California Gold Rush, and editor of a local paper, Edmund Booth epitomized the classic 19th century pioneer, except for one difference--he was deaf.

This visually rich volume presents, for the first time, stories of deaf soldiers and civilians who lived during the Civil War.

Features the life of a great deaf teacher renowned for his vivacious drama and literature classes, and for helping to found the National Technical Institute for the Deaf and the National Theatre of the Deaf.

Lang, a professor for the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, tells about how three enterprising deaf men--Robert Weitbrecht, James Marsters, and Andrew Saks--fought telephone monopolies and bureaucracies and overcame technical difficulties to develop a phone deaf people can use, one that converts sounds into text. Photos.