Examines some oral-based literary works of the deaf community in the United States. Includes Ben Bahan's fable, Bird of a different feather, and Sam Supalla's For a decent living. The student video and workbook divides these narratives into structural units: strophes, topic units, chapters, and parts, allowing a wide range of activities in and out of the classroom.
Contains two original signed ASL narratives based on the deaf experience. Bird of a different feather by Ben Bahan explores the experiences of a different-looking bird within a family of eagles. For a decent living by Sam Supalla is a novella in which the protagonist is a deaf boy on a journey to find his deaf identity. The teacher's video is broken into segments for classroom use, and the guide contains lesson plans.
-- Ideal for preschool through 1st grade -- 16-word controlled vocabulary -- Step-by-step lessons for parents and teachers -- Fun to color -- Easy to cut and play matching games -- Clear tracing words -- Space for writing words
-- Ideal for preschool through 1st grade -- 16-word controlled vocabulary -- Step-by-step lessons for parents and teachers -- Fun to color -- Easy to cut and play matching games -- Clear tracing words -- Space for writing words
-- Ideal for preschool through 1st grade -- 16-word controlled vocabulary -- Step-by-step lessons for parents and teachers -- Fun to color -- Easy to cut and play matching games -- Clear tracing words -- Space for writing words
This popular clinical reference and text provides a multisystems perspective on childhood disability and its effects on family life. The volume examines how child, family, ecological, and sociocultural variables intertwine to shape the ways families respond to disability, and how professionals can promote coping, adaptation, and empowerment. Accessible and engaging, the book integrates theory and research with vignettes and firsthand reflections from family members.
Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East is among the first comprehensive treatments to present the diverse ways in which ancient Near Eastern civilizations memorialized and honored their dead, using mortuary rituals, human skeletal remains, and embodied identities as a window into the memory work of past societies. In six case studies teams of researchers with different skillsets—osteological analysis, faunal analysis, culture history and the analysis of written texts, and artifact analysis—integrate mortuary analysis with bioarchaeological techniques. Drawing upon different kinds of data, including human remains, ceramics, jewelry, spatial analysis, and faunal remains found in burial sites from across the region’s societies, the authors paint a robust and complex picture of death in the ancient Near East. Demonstrating the still underexplored potential of bioarchaeological analysis in ancient societies, Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East serves as a model for using multiple lines of evidence to reconstruct commemoration practices. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian societies, the archaeology of death and burial, bioarchaeology, and human skeletal biology.
Using illustrative examples from a variety of traditions, Benjamin Brinner first examines the elements and characteristics of musical competence, the different kinds of competence in a musical community, the development of multiple competences, and the acquisition and transformation of competence through time. He then shows how these factors come into play in musical interaction, establishing four intersecting theoretical perspectives based on ensemble roles, systems of communication, sound structures, and individual motivations. These perspectives are applied to the dynamics of gamelan performance to explain the social, musical, and contextual factors that affect the negotiation of consensus in musical interaction. The discussion ranges from sociocultural norms of interpersonal conduct to links between music, dance, theater, and ritual, and from issues of authority and deference to musicians' self-perceptions and mutual assessments.
How would it look if we "disabled" Christian theology, discipleship, and theological education? Benjamin Conner initiates a new conversation between disability studies and Christian theology and missiology, imagining a church that fully incorporates persons with disabilities into its mission. In this vision, people with disabilities are part of the church's pluriform witness, and the congregation embodies a robust hermeneutic of the gospel.
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