Scope and Contents From the Series: This is a complex series consisting of 10 boxes. This series provides an excellent kaleidoscope of various debates in the deaf community- ASL versus English, education methods, the validity of ASL as a language, linguistics, culture and community issues. This series contains several various list-serv e-mails. One note: the e-mails are organized by subject line such as Bi-Bi Education or Cochlear Implant Nurse. However, these subject lines do not convey accurately the contents or subject of...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Gallaudet Series consists of 10 boxes of documents related to Frances’ service with Gallaudet as a tutor, Assistant Professor, and Coordinator of International History Collections. The documents in this series are primarily administrative memorandums, correspondence between faculty members and with students, lecture notes, student papers. This series contains all of the news clippings, correspondence, and reports Frances incurred as a result of her travels abroad advocating total...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Frances M. Parsons Papers consist of articles, clippings, diaries, letters, reports, resumes and a scrapbook. Ms. Parsons is presently a lecturer of Art History at Gallaudet University where she has taught since 1973. Professor Parsons is known as an "ambassador" to the deaf world where she has been traveling around to spread the Total Communication to the deaf people.The collection, which consists of approximately 2,500 pages, dates from 1939 1986. The bulk of the collection...