The expansion of sign language education

Autor/a: PADDEN, Carol
Año: 2003
Editorial: Londres: Kogan-Page, 2003
Tipo de código: Copyright
Soporte: Digital

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Educación

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Alexander Graham Bell is best known to the world as the inventor of the telephone, but he is known to deaf Americans as the husband of a deaf woman, and a frequent commentator on the subject of deafness and deaf education. In 1878, at the invitation of the headmaster of a deaf school in upstate New York, Bell paid a visit to the school and then was interviewed by a local newspaper. Bell was quoted as contratulating the headmaster for his policy prohibiting sign language at the school, adding that "I think the use of sign language will go entirely out of existence very soon". Whatever Bell's genius regarding telephonic communication, it evidently did not extend to prognostications about sign language. Today sign language education has become more broadly used than Bell could have imagined - or desired.
 
En: J. Bourne & E. Reid (Eds.) "World Yearbook of Education".