David Goode

A World Without Words: The Social Construction of Children Born Deaf and Blind

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

During the Rubella Syndrome epidemic of the 1960s, many children were born deaf, blind, and mentally disabled. David Goode has devoted his life and career to understanding such people's world, a world without words. This book is the result of his studies of two children with congenital deaf-blindness and mental retardation.

Produktdetails

• Health Society and Policy
• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Temple Univ Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 261
• Erscheinungstermin: Juni 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9781566392167
• ISBN-10: 1566392160
• Artikelnr.: 22377257

Autorenporträt

David Goode is the Coordinator of the Program in Developmental Disabilities and teaches sociology at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword ¿ Irving Kenneth Zola 
Acknowledgments 
1. Introduction 
2. A World Without Words 
3. On Understanding Without Words 
4. Reflections on the Possibility of Understanding Without Formal Language 
5. Construction and Use of Data in Social Science Research 
6. Kids, Culture, and Innocents 
7. Conclusions 
Appendix: Ascertaining Choice with Alingual, Deaf-Blind, and Retarded
Clients 
Notes 
References 
Index