<i>Silence of the Spheres. The Deaf Experience in the History of Science</i>

Lang, Harry G.; Ehrlich, Stanley L.

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“…Meek's last publication alone, Volume IX of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories (1876), contained more than 600 pages and 45 illustrations. He was honored with membership in the National Academy of Sciences and, upon his death, his friend Joseph Henry, the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, delivered the funeral oration in the Smithsonian Institution Hall (Lang, 1994).…”

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“…In the field of Deaf Education, this expression is often associated with the use of sign language. In the history of science, however, regardless of whether deaf people communicated in sign language or not, their visual observations of the physical world led them to many great accomplishments (Lang, 1994;Lang and Meath-Lang, 1995). This is especially true during the 19 th and early 20 th centuries, which saw the emergence of entomology as a scientific discipline.…”

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Contributions of deaf people to entomology: A hidden legacy

Lang

Santiago‐Blay

2012

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SummaryDespite communication challenges, deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals made many new discoveries during the emergence of entomology as a scientific discipline. In the 18 th century, Switzerland's naturalist Charles Bonnet, a preformationist, investigated parthenogenesis, a discovery that laid the groundwork for many scientists to examine conception, embryonic development, and the true, non-preformationist nature of heredity. In the 19 th century, insect collectors, such as Arthur Doncaster and James Platt-Barrett in England, as well as Johann Jacob Bremi-Wolf in Switzerland, developed specialized knowledge in several insect orders, particularly the Lepidoptera. In contrast, the contributions to entomology of Fielding Bradford Meek and Leo Lesquereux in the United States stemmed from their paleontological studies, while the work of Simon S. Rathvon and Henry William Ravenel in economic entomology and botany, respectively, was derived from their strong interests in plants. These and other contributors found ways to overcome the isolation imposed upon them by deafness and, as a group, deaf and hard-of-hearing scientists established a legacy in entomology that has not been previously explored.

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Contributions of deaf people to entomology: A hidden legacy

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2012

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“…The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, 2002) has developed several publications that document the early lives of contemporary scientists with disabilities that may provide inspiration for DHH students considering science careers. Similarly, Silence of the Spheres: The Deaf Experience in the History of Science (Lang, 1994) chronicles the challenging yet successful lives of hundreds of deaf people in STEM careers.…”

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Signs of Autonomy: Facilitation Independence and Inquiry in Deaf Science Classrooms

Kahn¹,

Feldman²,

Cooke³

2014

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“…For reports on deaf students' transition from high school through employment, see [Walter 2010]. For a detailed synopsis on scientists with hearing loss from the 16th century to the early 1990s, see [Lang 1994].…”

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Undergraduate research in mathematics with deaf and hard-of-hearing students: four perspectives

Adler

Jacob

Kurz

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(Communicated by Darren A. Narayan)Involving more deaf and hard-of-hearing students in undergraduate research is a step toward getting more such students into STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) careers. Since evidence exists that undergraduate research improves retention, especially for some underrepresented groups that have low retention rates -as, for example, deaf and hard-of-hearing STEM majors -it is a particularly pertinent step to keep interested students in these career paths. Nunes and Moreno have suggested that deaf and hard-of-hearing students have the potential to pursue mathematics, but lack the resources. By involving more such individuals in undergraduate mathematics research, we can improve their success rates and promote mathematics research within the Deaf community.Here we describe our experiences working both with and as deaf or hard-ofhearing students in research, as well as advice that stems from these experiences. Each of the authors is a faculty member at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a college of Rochester Institute of Technology, and holds a PhD in a scientific field. Three of the authors are deaf, and one (Jacob) is hearing. While this paper describes the experiences and opinions of individuals, and is not meant to be an all-inclusive handbook on how to do research with any deaf or hard-of-hearing student, we hope that it will be a helpful resource.

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Silence of the Spheres. The Deaf Experience in the History of Science

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Contributions of deaf people to entomology: A hidden legacy

Contributions of deaf people to entomology: A hidden legacy

Signs of Autonomy: Facilitation Independence and Inquiry in Deaf Science Classrooms

Undergraduate research in mathematics with deaf and hard-of-hearing students: four perspectives

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