The Deaf Way: Perspectives from the International Conference on Deaf Culture

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Index Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations; t indicates a table AAPA See Association for Hearing Impaired Adults Abdulaziz, King (Saudi Arabia), 275 Abnormality, among Songye (Zaire) defined, 86 Aborigines, 43 Academy of French Sign Languages (ALSF), 441 ACCESS 2000 project (Australia), 711 "Account of a Boy Born Blind and Deaf, An" (Stewart/Smith), 497 Acculturation, 487 Activism, in behalf of Deaf people, 696 Adamorobe village (Ghana), 100 Adepoju, Gabriel, 269, 272 Adult Deaf Society of New South Wales, 746 Adult Education Centre (Australia), 656-57 Adult Loss of Hearing Association (Tucson, AZ),51O Adventist missions, in Peru, 806 Africa: Deaf culture in sub-Saharan, 85-93; sociocultural values in sub-Saharan, 92. See also individual countries Afrikaans, 80. See also South Africa Age of Access, 751 Agency for the Handicapped of Quebec, 148 Aid to Communicating with the Deaf (Australia), 335 Aida Penafiel de Dobronsky Institute (Ecuador), 119 Ajax, 736, 753 Akron Club of the Deaf, 255 Akron, Ohio: employment of deaf workers in, 250,251-57 AI-Amal (Hope) Institutes (Saudi Arabia), 276-82 Alcoholics Anonymous, 488, 491 ALDA News, 507 "Aldanonymous," 507 Alea, Jose Miguel, 203-7 Alice in Deafinity, 755 All India Sports Council for the Deaf, 533 Allen, T., 849 American Anthropological Association, xxv American Association of the Deaf-Blind, 499 American Athletic Association of the Deaf (AAAD), 523, 526, 542, 544 American Council of Learned Societies, xxiv American Deaf community, 44-48. See also Deaf community; Deaf identity American evangelical missionaries, 209-10 American Foundation for the Blind, 499 American humor, 17 American League for the Deaf-Blind, 499 American Philanthropic Organization for Near East Fund, 240, 241 American School for the Deaf (ASD), 22630 ; beginnings of, 227. See also Connecticut Asylum American Sign Language, xxv, 584; of black deaf signers, 475; body communication and, 36-37; community choice of, 102; contact signing and, 356-64; curriculum and objectives of, 716-17; as developmental stage, 594; in Dominican Republic, 110, 112; early films of, 180, 182, 183; in Ecuador, 124; effects of disregarding, 586; and English lexicon, 454-60, 459t; and ethnicity and social processes of deaf children, 585-86; as foreign language in high school, 713-18; humorous manipulations of, 20; and identity, 46; and late-deafened people, 505-6; legitimate status of, xxvi; in Quebec, 150; research with American deaf community, 365-68; resiliency of, 365; in treatment of substance abuses, 488-90; use of, in interviewing, 356-63. See also ASL to English Americans with Disabilities Act, xxvi Ammons, Donalda K., 783, 784 Ancestor: relationships among Songye people (Zaire), 88; worship, in Ghana, 98 And Your Name Is Jonah, 733 Andersson, Yerker, 830n, 869 Angola, deaf Namibians in, 343-45 Angolan Deaf culture, 344 Anjuman Behbood-e-Samat-e-Atfal (ABSA) School for the Deaf (Pakistan), 77 Apartheid policy, of South Africa, 343 Appearance, and name signs, 419-20 Aristotle, 205, 239-40, 781 Arrabal, Gregorio Jesus Jaen, 762-69 Arts: deaf people in the, 726-30; in Estonia, 141; in France, 173 Ashley, Elmer, 257 ASL. See American Sign Language 892 THE DEAF WAY ~ ASL: A Student Text; Units 1-18 (Baker-Shenk! Cokely), 717 ASL syllabus, 428 ASL: A Teacher's Resource Text on Curriculum , Methods, and Evaluation (Baker-Shenk! Cokely), 428 ASL to English: in kindergarten, 621-26; translation , 457 Asselberghs, Maria, 530 Association Cycliste (France), 172 Association des Adultes avec Problemes Auditifs (AAPA), 152-54 Association for Hearing Impaired Adults (AAPA), in Quebec, 152-54 Association for Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf (Germany), 389, 398 Association of Canadian Educators of the Hearing Impaired, 864-65 Association of Deaf of Guayas (Ecuador), 121 Association of Deaf People of Brazil, 117 Association of Hearing Deficiencies (Ecuador), 121 Association of Late-Deafened Adults (ALDA), 507, 509 Association of Parents of the National Institute of the Deaf (Greece), 243 A T & T, and support of The Deaf Way, xix, xxi, xxvii,866 Athens, Greece, 240 Australasian Total Communication, 335 Australia: adult education in Deaf community, 656-57; Deaf awareness programs in, 706-12; Deaf community of, 155-57; as multicultural society, 291; theater in, 746-50 Australian Deafness Council, 710 Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, 746 Australian Sign Language (AUSLAN), 291, 747, 748 Australian Sign Language Development Committee , 335 Australian Theatre of the Deaf, 746-50 Austria: benefits to deaf people in, 133; Deaf culture in, 131-34; and "German method," 220; Jewish Deaf school in, 236 Austrian SOciety for the Deaf, 131, 133 Ayers, Kreigh B., 253 Baird, Chuck, xxviii...