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• Edmund Booth (1810-1905) Forty-Niner: The Life Story of a Deaf Pioneer, by Edmund Booth (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)

• Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II (New York and London: New York University Press, c2002), by Susan Burch (PDF and EPub with commentary at OAPEN)

• Edmund Booth (1810-1905) Forty-Niner: The Life Story of a Deaf Pioneer, by Edmund Booth (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Straight Language for the Deaf: A System of Instruction for Deaf Children (9th printing; Washington: Volta Bureau, 1962), by Edith Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations (2 volumes; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by John D. Bonvillian, Nicole Kissane Lee, Tracy T. Dooley, and Filip T. Loncke, illust. by Val Nelson-Metlay
  • Volume 1 (Principles, Background, and Application): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume 2 (Simplified Sign Lexicon, Descriptions, and Memory Aids): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers

• Hearing Impairment and Elderly People (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Standardization, Efficiency, Heredity: Schools for the Deaf (Indianapolis, IN: Burford, 1920), by Richard Otto Johnson (illustrated HTML at Indiana)
• Libraries in State Schools for the Deaf (U-Illinois bachelor's thesis; 1903), by Helen Theresa Kennedy
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College, by Horace Mann (page images at MOA)

• Love for a Deaf Rebel: Schizophrenia on Bowen Island (print, ebook, and audio editions; c2021), by Derrick King (multiple formats at archive.org)

• From Poor-House to Pulpit, or, The Triumphs of the Late Dr. John Kitto, From Boyhood to Manhood: A Book for Youth (Boston: E. O. Libby and Co.; New York: C. Scribner, 1859), by William M. Thayer (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Poor-House to Pulpit, or, The Triumphs of the Late Dr. John Kitto, From Boyhood to Manhood: A Book for Youth (Boston: E. O. Libby and Co.; New York: C. Scribner, 1859), by William M. Thayer (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Silent Worker (partial serial archives)

• El Colegio Provincial de Sordo-Mudos y de Ciegos de Sevilla en la Exposición Universal de Paris de 1889: Memoria Relativa à su Historia, Organización, Regimen y Estado Actual, y Catalogo de los Objetos que Remite á Dicha Exposición (in Spanish; Seville: Im. del Colegio de Sordo-Mudos y de Ciegos, 1889), by Antonio Pichardo y Casado
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• On the Legal Rights and Responsibilities of the Deaf and Dumb, by Harvey Prindle Peet (page images at MOA)

• Love for a Deaf Rebel: Schizophrenia on Bowen Island (print, ebook, and audio editions; c2021), by Derrick King (multiple formats at archive.org)

• American Annals of the Deaf (partial serial archives)
• The Silent Worker (partial serial archives)
• American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb (full serial archives)

• The Venture (Detroit: J. N. Williams, 1883), by Angeline A. Fuller (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Libraries in State Schools for the Deaf (U-Illinois bachelor's thesis; 1903), by Helen Theresa Kennedy
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Hearing Impairment and Elderly People (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations (2 volumes; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by John D. Bonvillian, Nicole Kissane Lee, Tracy T. Dooley, and Filip T. Loncke, illust. by Val Nelson-Metlay
  • Volume 1 (Principles, Background, and Application): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume 2 (Simplified Sign Lexicon, Descriptions, and Memory Aids): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers

• A Bibliography of Sign Languages, 2008-2017 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018), ed. by Anne Aarssen, René Genis, and Eline van der Veken, contrib. by Myriam Vermeerbergen and Anna-Lena Nilsson (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Chirologia: or, The Naturall Language of the Hand Composed of the Speaking Motions, and Discoursing Gestures Thereofl Whereunto Is Added Chironomia, or, the Art of Manuall Rhetoricke, Consisting of the Naturall Expressions, Digested by Art In the Hand, as the Chiefest Instrument of Eloquence, By Historicall Manifesto's Exemplified Out of the Authentique Registers of Common Life and Civill Conversation; With Types, or Chyrograms, a Long-wish'd for Illustration of This Argument (London: Printed by T. Harper, 1644), by J. B.
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• The Invited Alphabet: or, Address of A To B Containing His Friendly Proposal for the Amusement and Instruction of Good Children (London: B. Tabart and Co., 1809), by R. R., illust. by Charles Knight (page images at Princeton)

• Air Pictures (Sign Language) (New York: Camp Fire Outfitting Co., 1915), by Charlotte V. Gulick (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Collection of Gesture-Signs and Signals of the North American Indians: With Some Comparisons (Washington: G.P.O., 1880), by Garrick Mallery (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Introduction to the Study of Sign Language Among the North American Indians As Illustrating the Gesture Speech of Mankind (Washington: GPO, 1880), by Garrick Mallery
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Graphic Art of the Eskimos (Washington: GPO, 1897), by Walter James Hoffman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Disability in America: Toward a National Agenda for Prevention (1991), ed. by Andrew M. Pope and Alvin R. Tarlov (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The American Negro as a Dependent, Defective and Delinquent (c1914), by Charles H. McCord (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Shadow and Sunshine, by Eliza Suggs
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • illustrated HTML at rootsweb.com

• Black Disability Politics (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2022), by Samantha Dawn Schalk (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Duke University Press)

• Children and Youth at the Midcentury: Fact-Finding Report, Additional Digest Material (c1950), by Mid-century White House Conference on Children and Youth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Black Disability Politics (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2022), by Samantha Dawn Schalk (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Duke University Press)

• Legislative Recommendations of Blinded Veterans Association, 1977: Hearing Before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-Fifth Congress, First Session (Washington: GPO, 1977), by United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Adaptive Technology for the Internet: Making Electronic Resources Accessible to All (2000), by Barbara T. Mates (HTML at independentliving.org)

• Deportation by Default: Mental Disability, Unfair Hearings, and Indefinite Detention in the US Immigration System (c2010), by Sarah Mehta (HTML at hrw.org)

• Mandatory Passive Restraint Systems in Automobiles: Issues and Evidence (Technology and Handicapped People background paper #1; OTA-BP-H-15; Washington: GPO, 1982), by Kenneth E. Warner
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Digital Youth with Disabilities (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2014), by Meryl Alper (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Opportunity 2000: Creative Affirmative Action Strategies for a Changing Workforce (Washington: Employment Standards Administration, 1988), by Hudson Institute, contrib. by Clint Bolick and Susan L. Nestleroth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Health Policy and the Disadvantaged (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1991), ed. by Lawrence D. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• Psychiatric Disabilities, Employment and the Americans With Disabilities Act (OTA-BP-BBS-124; 1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Black Disability Politics (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2022), by Samantha Dawn Schalk (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Duke University Press)

• Access to Over-the-Road Buses for Persons With Disabilities (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Mandatory Passive Restraint Systems in Automobiles: Issues and Evidence (Technology and Handicapped People background paper #1; OTA-BP-H-15; Washington: GPO, 1982), by Kenneth E. Warner
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Problems of the Carless: Final Report (prepared for US Dept. of Transportation, 1976), by Robert E. Paaswell and Wilfred W. Recker
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at UNT

• Access to Over-the-Road Buses for Persons With Disabilities (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.