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The Art of Being Deaf: A Memoir
Donna McDonald
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Description for The Art of Being Deaf: A Memoir
Paperback. When she was five, the author was placed in an oral deaf school. There, she was trained to communicate only in spoken English. Her determination led to achievements that caused many to identify her as a "deaf girl that had made good." This book tells her story. Num Pages: 196 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: BM; JFFG; JNS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 288.
Australian scholar Donna McDonald has achieved a successful career in social work policy focusing on disadvantage and disability, yet, until now, her work has never directly addressed the personal challenges she faced having been part of a generation of children in Australia and around the world who were born deaf, but assimilated into oral education programs in the 1950s and '60s. In The Art of Being Deaf, McDonald tells her story and describes the process of reconciling her deaf-self and her hearing persona. When she was five, McDonald was placed in an oral deaf school. There, she was trained to ... Read more
Australian scholar Donna McDonald has achieved a successful career in social work policy focusing on disadvantage and disability, yet, until now, her work has never directly addressed the personal challenges she faced having been part of a generation of children in Australia and around the world who were born deaf, but assimilated into oral education programs in the 1950s and '60s. In The Art of Being Deaf, McDonald tells her story and describes the process of reconciling her deaf-self and her hearing persona. When she was five, McDonald was placed in an oral deaf school. There, she was trained to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9781563685972
SKU
V9781563685972
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Ref
99-15
About Donna McDonald
Donna McDonald is a senior lecturer and convenor of the Disability Studies Program in the School of Human Services and Social Work at Griffith University, Meadowbrook Queensland, Australia.
Reviews for The Art of Being Deaf: A Memoir
"There's a generational story to be told here that is important-McDonald was part of a 'between' generation of deaf kids/students around the globe (but especially in the UK, Australia, developed Europe, and US) who now had access to 'regular' schools but who were still struggling in the shadow-land between deaf schools/lives/identities and the public/regular schools." (Brenda Jo Brueggeman, Ohio State ... Read more