Words Made Flesh Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture / [Recurso electrónico] :
R.A.R. Edwards.
- New York : New York University Press, 2012.
- 1 online resource (vii, 255 p. )
- The history of disability .
- History of disability series. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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 -- The flight over the Clark School: manualists and oralists confront deafness.