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 The Frances M. Parsons papers consist of correspondence, e-mail listservs, journals, diaries, memorandums, term papers, grade reports, resumes, directories of schools for the deaf, contracts, essays, presentations, publications, news clippings, reports, minutes, and proposals.The collection contains 34 boxes of documents, which includes approximately 23,000 pages of documents, and dates from 1929 to 2006. The collection is divided into 4 series and one sub series- Personal...

Scope and Contents 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...