The SAGE Deaf Studies Encyclopedia

Genie Gertz, Patrick Boudreault

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781506341668
• Edition: 1

The time has come for a new in-depth encyclopedic collection of articles defining the current state of Deaf Studies at an international level and using the critical and intersectional lens encompassing the field. The emergence of Deaf Studies programs at colleges and universities and the broadened knowledge of social sciences (including but not limited to Deaf History, Deaf Culture, Signed Languages, Deaf Bilingual Education, Deaf Art, and more) have served to expand the activities of research, teaching, analysis, and curriculum development. The field has experienced a major shift due to increasing awareness of Deaf Studies research since the mid-1960s. The field has been further influenced by the Deaf community’s movement, resistance, activism and politics worldwide, as well as the impact of technological advances, such asin communications, with cell phones, computers, and other devices. A major goal of this new encyclopedia is to shift focus away from the “Medical/Pathological Model” that would view Deaf individuals as needing to be “fixed” in order to correct hearing and speaking deficiencies for the sole purpose of assimilating into mainstream society. By contrast, The Deaf Studies Encyclopedia seeks to carve out a new and critical perspective on Deaf Studies with the focus that the Deaf are not a people with a disability to be treated and “cured” medically, but rather, are members of a distinct cultural group with a distinct and vibrant community and way of being.

Index

Note: Volume numbers are in boldface. Entry titles and their page numbers are in boldface.

• AAVE (African American Vernacular English), 3:830
• Abby Gets a Cochlear Implant (Riski), 2:663
• Abraham Lincoln (Carmel), 3:834
• abstract expressionism, 1:36
• Abused Deaf Women’s Advocacy Services (ADWAS), 1:92, 1:322
• ACAA (Air Carrier Access Act), 2:577
• Academic Information Management System (AIMSweb), 2:379
• academic test bias, 1:1–4
  • access and opportunity, 1:3
  • constructs, 1:1–2
  • DIF, 1:2–3
  • DPC, 1:3
  • implications, 1:4
  • overview, 1:1
  • selection, 1:3–4
• ACE-DHH (Association of College Educators-Deaf & Hard of Hearing), 2:349
• Achebe, Chinua, 1:154
• Acredolo, Linda, 1:71
• Act Up, 1:317
• ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages), 3:850
• actors, 1:4–8. See also specific actors
  • history, 1:4–7
  • stereotypes in portrayal of Deaf persons, 1:8
• ADA. See Americans with Disabilities Act
• Adams, Luke, 3:970
• ADARA (American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association), 2:501
• Addabo, Carole, 2:663
• additive, maintenance bilingual education model, 3:943
• adequate yearly progress (AYP), 2:379
• Admission Day, 1:151
• adoption, 1:9–12
  • current trends, 1:10–11
  • history in Deaf community, 1:9–10
  • legal cases, 1:10
  • overview, 1:9
  • recommendations for deaf-centric practices, 1:9
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (Twain), 1:153
• ADWAS (Abused Deaf Women’s Advocacy Services), 1:92, 1:322
• affirmative action. See employment: affirmative action
• l’AFILS (l’Association française des interprètes et traducteurs en...