This is a handbook for readers who wish to learn more about providing services to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. It provides basic knowledge of Deaf Culture and the hard of hearing population, the aesthetics of American Sign Language, and an awareness of hearing loss and its influence on family and community life. This is a unique book in that it draws from the experiences of a Deaf (Rohring) and a hearing (Adams) author, providing a comprehensive perspective. It draws upon research and literature, from professional practice, and from anecdotal accounts. "Handbook to Service the Deaf and Hard of Hearing" is an essential resource for college training programs, hospitals, health care agencies, hearing and speech centers, school districts, educational agencies, and any one working with or employing deaf or hard of hearing persons. It features chapters containing research and practical information on understanding the primary issues affecting the lives of deaf and hard of hearing people. It has unique perspectives from Deaf, hard of hearing and hearing professionals relative to such topics as language development, Deaf Culture, medical advances in technology, literature, art and drama in the Deaf Community and growing up with a hearing loss. Illustrations and artwork presented throughout the book were created by renown deaf artists. Recommended best practices are offered on how to provide community accessibility to deaf and hard of hearing individuals. Resource section provides exhaustive list of books, articles, organizations, and Web sites in the areas of communication, deaf culture, legal rights, deaf studies and research, educational issues, language, mental health, technology, and more.

Handbook to Service the Deaf and Hard of Hearing: A Bridge to Accessibility

Politics & Social Sciences

Adams, John W.

Rohring, Pamela

Sociology

Brill Academic Pub

One can reach back indefinitely for a beginning date to hang on the bus business. Horse-drawn stagecoaches had hauled passengers for centuries before the engine replaced the horse. The Butterfield Overland Stage began operating in 1858. In 1912, out in California, J. T. Hayes was using Model T Fords to carry passengers between San Diego and El Centro. Greyhound dates their start from 1914 when Carl Wickman began hauling miners over the four mile unpaved road between Hibbing and Alice, Minnesota. Within a few years, embryo bus lines were common. When I started driving, many of the older drivers were still there. Their colorful careers had spanned the United States with an assortment of experience from automobiles and stretch-jobs to the diesels of 1952 -- from 7-passenger capacity and dirt roads to 37-passenger capacity and paved highways. It is my good fortune to have known some of these drivers personally. Their imagination some 80 or 90 years ago turned automobiles into buses, while their daring and skill kept those buses moving over dirt roads, through mud holes and through snow drifts until they reached the narrow concrete strips of the forties and fifties and finally the interstate highways of today.This story starts with the stories these pioneer drivers told me and ends with my own experiences with Greyhound from the day I was hired in1952 until the day I retired in 1985. What was it like for the men who started the bus business? How did it feel in the 50's, 60's and 70's to drive a bus down the highway? What did those bus drivers see, hear, feel and think? What bawdy stories did they invent? It's all here including "Rain, Ice & Snow", "Asleep at the Wheel", "Sex on the Highway", "Accidents", etc.* * *Bus business was booming in 1952 and continued to flourish throughout the 50´s. Greyhound -- with routes across the United States -- ran numerous schedules that often carried three or four buses running down the highway like a train. The gasoline Supercoach was still on the road, but it was the new diesel Silverside that served as the backbone of Greyhound's fleet until the Scenicruiser came out in 1954. To the Silverside and the Scenicruiser, most of my road memories are tied. It didn't take much for bus driver's to dream up new jokes. Driving down the highway with their minds focused only on the road, they had room to think of other things, and they did. The new Scenicruiser with its double deck and two windshields inspired the following. Two crows nesting west of Springfield missed no chance to fly over the windshield of oncoming buses and drop their load. They sat on a telephone line one day as a new Scenicruiser approached, and one crow said to the other, "Shall we?" The second crow replied, "Sure. Why not?" They flew up into the air and began their bombing run, unaware that they were diving on a new bus with two windshields. As they cleared the first windshield with bombs away, the upper deck windshield caught them, and knocked them senseless into the ditch. When they finally came to and began stumbling around trying to knock the dust off their feathers, one crow said to the other, "Damm! Did you ever see a second section follow so close?"* * * In 1912, out in California, J. T. Hayes was using Model T Fords to carry passengers between San Diego and El Centro. He sometimes picked up customers from the curb in front of the Pickwick Theater in San Diego, and his operation eventually became known as Pickwick Stages. By the early twenties, mighty Pickwick Stages was mushrooming up out of the West and steadily gaining territory eastward. Her Pierce Arrows with running boards and doors opening from each row of seats (there were no center aisles) sucked up sand from the plains of New Mexico. Her drivers over the muddy roads of Oklahoma and Texas became known as mud slingers, and a man who could not keep his bus rolling through the

A Million Miles or More

Biographies & Memoirs

AuthorHouse

A reprint of perhaps the best manual on horseshoeing ever published. The author was the outstanding authority on horseshoeing of his time; he published his first textbook in 1884, and in subsequent years revised and expanded it. The text and illustrations have still not been surpassed.

Textbook of Horseshoeing for Horseshoers and Veterinarians

Science & Math

Lungwitz, Anton

Nature & Ecology

Oregon State Univ Pr

You and Your Hearing-Impaired Child: A Self-Instructional Guide for Parents

You and Your Hearing-Impaired Child: A Self-Instructional Guide for Parents

Parenting & Relationships

Disabilities & Hyperactivity

Clerc

Power Words for Prosperous Living

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Golden Key Pubns

The Expatriate Handbook gives the reader an overview of all the issues facing business people when they're asked to take on overseas assignments. While every assignment varies with country and position, there are common issues every American should examine before accepting becoming an expatriate. The author draws on his years of experience working with European expatriates to provide useful guidelines to determine if the assignment is right for the reader.

U.S. Expatriate Handbook Guide to Living and Working Abroad

Business & Money

International

West Virginia Univ College of

This practical guide leads the business person considering an assignment in China through important issues to consider when planning for the expatriate experience. Overseas business assignments can make or break a career, and unrealistic expectations and family issues often make for a failed assignment. This guide offers sound advice to help avoid such disappointments. Topics include career considerations, cultural adjustment, living arrangements, trailing spouses, children, health care, compensation, taxes, foreign currency, consular and legal issues, and repatriation strategies. Includes an extensive list of useful references from a variety of publications and Internet resources.

U.S. Expatriate Handbook, China Edition. A Guide to Living & Working Abroad

Riley, William B.

West Virginia University College of Business and Economics

Pun Intended

High, John W. Adams here, soon to be famous cartoonist (I hope). These 200 cartoons span about 50 years. I have been drawing since I was very young. Over the years I've made many, many submissions of my cartoons, but until now no publisher was interested in my cartoons. Finally, at age 70, I was fortunate enough to find Xlibris, who is willing, to take a chance and publish my Cartoon Book. It's like "Coming Out of the Cartoonist's Closet" after so many Years! If you have purchased this book Thank you so much.

Comics & Graphic Novels

How To Create Comics & Manga

Xlibris, Corp.

Xlibris

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