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Plann, Susan – Sign Language Studies, 2000
Tells the story of a 16-year-old boy who attended and was expelled from the Spanish National School for Deaf Mutes and the Blind during the 1870s. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Deafness, Foreign Countries, Residential Schools, Sign Language

Stokoe, William C. – Sign Language Studies, 1995
Suggests how insights from Paul Bohannon's book, "How Culture Works" (1995), could be used to address such questions as, "How do deaf people learn their culture?" and "How do deaf children learn (what) culture?" Bohannon's idea of cultural dynamics is applied to deaf culture to trace how that culture evolved, how it…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Boarding Schools, Cultural Maintenance, Culture