Tom L. Humphries Explained

Tom L. Humphries
Citizenship:	United States
Occupation:	Professor

Tom L. Humphries is an American academic, author, and lecturer on Deaf culture and deaf communication. Humphries is a professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).^[1]

Early life

Humphries coined the term audism in an unpublished paper in 1975^[2] and repeated the term in his doctoral PDE (Project Demonstrating Excellence) in 1977.^[3] He earned his Ph.D. in Cross Cultural Communication and Language Learning at Union Institute & University in 1977.^{[1] [4]}

Career

Humphries is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the San Diego branch of the University of California.^[1]

In addition to teaching at UCSD, he has been developing an experimental curriculum for teaching deaf children by applying bilingual teaching practices.^[1]

One way of framing his major area of interest is summarized in the abstract of his 2010 Lyons Lecture at the Rochester School for the Deaf:

Selected works

Humphries' published writings encompass 43 works in 78 publications in 7 languages and 5,474 library holdings.^[5] His works are created with his wife and co-author, Carol Padden.

• A Basic Course in American Sign Language (1980)
• Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture (1988)
• Inside deaf culture (2004)
• Learning American Sign Language (1992)

Chapters

• Humphries, T. (1996). "On deaf-mutes, the strange, and the modern Deaf self" in Culturally Affirming Psychotherapy with Deaf Persons. N. Glickman and M. Harvey, eds., Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996.
• ____________. (2001). "On Deaf-mutes, the Strange, and the Modern Deaf Self," in Culturally Affirming Psychotherapy with Deaf Persons, N. Glickman and M. Harvey, eds., Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996. Reprinted in Deaf World: A Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook, Lois Bragg, Ed. New York: New York University Press.
• ____________. (2004). "The modern Deaf self: Indigenous practices and educational imperatives," in Literacy and Deaf People: Cultural and Contextual Perspectives. B. Brueggemann, ed.. Gallaudet University Press.
• ____________. (2008). "Scientific explanation and other performance acts in the re-organization of DEAF," in Signs and Voices, Lindgren, DeLuca & Napoli, eds. Gallaudet University Press.
• ____________. (2008). "Scientific explanation and other performance acts in the re-organization of DEAF," in Signs and Voices, Donna Jo Napoli, ed.. Gallaudet University Press.
• ____________. (2008). "Talking culture and culture talking" in Open Your Eyes, Dirksen Bauman, ed., University of Minnesota Press.

Journals

• Humphries, T. and B. Allen. "Re-organizing teacher preparation in Deaf Education" in Sign Language Studies. 8:2. 2008.
• ____________. and MacDougall, F. "Chaining and other links: making connections between American Sign Language and English in two types of school settings" in Visual Anthropology Review, 15:2, Fall/Winter 1999/2000.

External links

• Web site: Transcript: An Exploration of Deaf Culture . NPR . 2005-02-02 . 2010-09-28.
• Web site: Q&A Carol Padden and Tom Humphries . Chancellor.ucsd.edu . 2010-09-28.

Notes and References

1. University of California, San Diego: Humphries faculty bio
2. Dirksen. H. Bauman. L. Audism: Exploring the Metaphysics of Oppression. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. 2004. 9. 2. 10.1093/deafed/enh025. 15304445. 239–246.
3. Humphries, Tom. 1977. Communicating across cultures (deaf -hearing) and language learning. Union Institute and University ProQuest DP10817, page i.
4. Book: Humphries, Tom L.. Communicating across cultures (deaf -hearing) and language learning. Union Institute and University. 1977. Ohio. .
5. http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/identities/default.htm WorldCat Identities