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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. A World's Eye View: Deaf Cultures in Global Perspective -- 2. British Manual Alphabets in the Education of Deaf People Since the 17th Century -- 3. Austria's Hidden Conflict: Hearing Culture Versus Deaf Culture -- 4. Pedagogical Issues in Swedish Deaf Education -- 5. Romance and Reality: Sociolinguistic Similarities and Differences between Swiss German Sign Language and Rhaeto-Romansh -- 6. The Dilemma of the Hard of Hearing within the U.S.Deaf Community -- 7. Sociolinguistic Dynamics in American Deaf Communities: Peer Groups Versus Families -- 8. School Language and Shifts in Irish Deaf Identity -- 9. Surdos Venceremos: The Rise of the Brazilian Deaf Community -- 10. South African Sign Language: Changing Policies and Practice -- 11. U-Turns, Deaf Shock, and the Hard of Hearing: Japanese Deaf Identities at the Borderlands -- 12. The Chiying School of Taiwan: A Foreigner's Perspective -- 13. The Changing World of the Russian Deaf Community -- 14. New Ways to Be Deaf in Nicaragua: Changes in Language, Personhood, and Community -- 15. Sign Languages and Deaf Identities in Thailand and Viet Nam -- 16. A for Apple: The Impact of Western Education and ASL on the Deaf Community in Kano State, Northern Nigeria -- Contributors -- Index

During 2010-2012, a Leonardo da Vinci-funded EU project focused on enhancing the language skills of Deaf people, interpreters and Health Care Professionals. Project partners from Cyprus, Ireland, Poland, Scotland and Sweden reviewed current knowledge of policy and practice, and embedded the resulting analysis into a programme of materials to support reflection, knowledge and skills development internationally. This report presents the project's initial 'state-of-the-art' review, with particular reference to the partner countries. ; MEDISIGNS