Tom L. Humphries
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).University of California, San DiegoHumphries faculty bio/ref> Early life Humphries coined the term audism in an unpublished paper in 1975 and repeated the term in his doctoral PDE (Project Demonstrating Excellence) in 1977. He earned his Ph.D. in Cross Cultural Communication and Language Learning at Union Institute & University in 1977. Career Humphries is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the San Diego branch of the University of California. In addition to teaching at UCSD, he has been developing an experimental curriculum for teaching deaf children by applying bilingual teaching practices. One way of framing (social sciences), 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 Hum ...
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