Dear Friend,
For years, the deaf community has felt the aftereffects of the stunning blow felt in Milan, Italy in 1880. At an educator’s conference there, hearing educators, including Alexander Graham Bell, voted to ban the use of sign language in deaf education. In the decades since then, deaf people have been forced to learn how […]

Posted on July 22nd, 2007 by egbertpress
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A book by Shawn Mahshie called “Educating Deaf Children Bilingually.”
Here’s a Web page from the Clerc Center that talks about Shawn N. Mahshie’s research.
http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Products/Sharing-Ideas/afirst/different.html

Posted on July 22nd, 2007 by egbertpress
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