Visually speaking : art therapy and the deaf

Summary: Deafness may or may not be considered a "disability" by those afflicted with auditory loss, but it is indeed a physical difference that has resulted in a language system. From language springs culture, and Deaf language is indeed a cultivation that celebrates such ethnology. As a result, most of the authors in this book recognize that discernment when referring to the "Deaf" culture and their unique, pictorial, sign language. Sign language vibrates through space as a three-dimensional language system, which arcs in past, present, and future just by mere body positioning and.

Record details

ISBN: 0398085285 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780398085285 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 225 p. : ill.)
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Publisher: Springfield : Charles C Thomas Publisher, LTD, 2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Deafness and mental health / Candace McCullough & Sharon M. Duchesneau -- Art and the deaf in the 1960s / Rawley Silver -- Family art therapy with the deaf : interpretations / Ellen G. Horovitz -- Art therapy with emotionally-disturbed deaf adults / Sally Brucker -- Art therapy : a case of a medically ill hearing child of deaf parents / Jacob M. Atkinson & Ellen G. Horovitz -- Art therapy and the multiply handicapped child / David R. Henley -- International perspectives on deafness : implications for art therapists / Amy A. Szarkowski -- Computers, evolution and culture : art therapy potentialities for the deaf / Ellen G. Horovitz -- Clinical and logistical issues in creating an art therapy program in residential school for the deaf / Carole Kunkle-Miller -- Art therapy with emotionally disturbed deaf adolescents / Ellen G. Horovitz.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.