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First printing. Systematic language educationfor the deaf began in Spain in monasteries where monks, under a vow of silence, had already developed a method of signed communication, but early in the 17th century it moved from the monasteries to lay teachers who put an emphasis on speaking and lip-reading - an emphasis that then spread to the rest of the world. This book looks at not just the history of changes in education, but in the changes in the accepted conceptions of the nature of language. 323 pp. with notes, index, and bibliography Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.) .ISBN # 0-520-204719 

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