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Growing Up Deaf In Appalachia: An Oral History Of My Mother, Elizabeth Shelton Tipton

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This study focuses on the life experiences of a rural, Deaf Appalachian woman, Jane Ann Shelton, a second generation Deaf child born to Deaf parents from the communities of Devil’s Fork (Flag Pond, Tennessee) and Shelton Laurel (Madison County, North Carolina). Over two hours of videotaped interviews were interpreted and transcribed, followed by various other communications to describe the life of a rural, Deaf Appalachian woman without a formal high school degree. As an advocate and a political lobbyist in Tennessee during the 1980s and 90s, she was unparalleled by her peers (deaf or hearing) in her efforts to “enhance …

Sign-Language, A Sister Of St. Joseph, Deaf Mute Institute

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A dictionary of sign language used in America. The volume contains 76 typewritten leaves and was prepared by a Sister of St. Joseph from the Deaf Mute Institute in St. Louis, Missouri. It is believed to have been circulated "for the use solely of the Jesuit Scholastics" circa 1900.

This early manual contains a general vocabulary and instructions for how to sign, including some distinctively Catholic terms.

Additional words appearing on title page: Ephphetha, "Be Thou Opened"