Benedictine Roots in the Development of Deaf Education Listening with the Heart

Subjects:

• Education » Special Education
• Sociology » Physical/Mental Disabilities
• Education » Educational Foundations
• Religious Studies » Religious Studies (General)

Reviews:

• This book is very interesting, informative, organized, and well thought out. There are so many facts and people to remember that you can get lost in history!....If you are Deaf or work in the field of deafness, this historical book would be an excellent addition to your personal/professional library. It has not only expanded my knowledge of the history of deaf education, it has helped me to appreciate its origins.
  —Disability Studies Quarterly

• Endorsement From W. Winfield McChord, Jr.
  Executive Director, The American School for the Deaf: Marilyn Daniels' insight and fresh perspective, combined with a scholarly bent for research and her evident mastery of presenting historical information in a very readable style have resulted in an entertaining, valuable, and instructive chronicle of this unique profession. This book is one of the most important treatments of deaf education and its history to be published in my thirty-three years as an educator of the deaf.
• Endorsement From Gabriel Moran
  Professor, Department of Culture and Communication
  New York University: Marilyn Daniels has written a very readable history of deaf education. She has also traced an intriguing connection to the Benedictine order. Because Jewish and Christian religions are based upon God speaking, the reality of the deaf person constituted a special challenge. The Benedictine rule of life, with its times of contemplative silence and communication through gesture, led to a recognition that language could be signed as well as spoken. Daniels follows this theme through the great work of Thomas and Edward Gallaudet and the university which bears their name.
• Endorsement From Robert M. Wilson
  Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Education
  University of Maryland: I was fascinated by the scholarly care the author took to prepare the reader to understand the links she has made from the past to the present....All of us interested in sign language will find this book to be 'must' reading.
• Endorsement From Sister Mary Forman, OSB
  President, American Benedictine Academy: As a Benedictine steeped in the monastic tradition of which the sixteenth century Spanish monk Pedro Ponce de Leon, first teacher of the deaf, was imbued, I "heard" many resonances between the care of the deaf through the centuries and the monastic care of persons in the Rule of Benedict, in Marilyn Daniels' book.

Table of Contents:

• First Foreword
• Second Foreword
• Preface
• Jewish and Christian Beliefs
• Benedictine Roots and Pedro Ponce de León
• Juan Pablo Bonet and Simplification of the Alphabet, and the Art of Teaching Deaf Mutes
• Charles Michael de l'Epée and The French National Institute for the Deaf
• Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and The American School for the Deaf
• Edward Miner Gallaudet and Gallaudet University
• Present Pedagogy and Consonance with Benedictine Roots
• Bibliography
• Index