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Uganda Deaf Silent Theatre, 226
Ugandan National Deaf Association (UNAD),
226, 227, 228, 239, 240
Ugandan Sign Language (UgSL), 18–19,
227–28
Ugandan Sign Language Dictionary, 228, 229
uncertainty of contemporary global times,
144–47, 172
UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities (UNCRPD), 18, 24, 31, 32
Underhill, J., 221–22, 236
United Kingdom: black deaf people in, 50–51;
Centre for Deaf Studies in, 62–63; deaf
emancipation in, 139; Deaffest, 29;
emancipation in, 137
United States: emancipation in, 136–37; trips
to, 62. See also American Sign Language;
Gallaudet University
unity, sign for, 222–23
Unity of Gallaudet protest, 96, 189
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 30
universities, as market-driven, 192–93Valentine, G., 139
van Deurzen, Emmy, 198
Van Herreweghe, M., 58–59
Van Landuyt, Ronny, 64
Veditz, George, 41
Verhaeghe, P., 23, 192, 194
Verstraete, Filip, 64, 65, 67, 70
Verstraete, G., 83, 84, 85
Viljoen, G., 225
VisualBox, 212, 213
Vlaamse Gebarentaal. See Flemish Sign
Language
voice: conflict of voices, 27–28; struggle
for, 197
Vygotsky, L., 52, 88–89, 91, 94, 99, 233waking up (raising of awareness): author
and, 181–86, 188; in Cameroon, 117;
in deaf space at Gallaudet, 91–94; in
Flemish life stories, 72, 72–75; power
of deaf awareness course in, 63. See also
awakening
Wakiso Secondary School for the Deaf,
Uganda, 18–19, 238, 240
Walloon, 58
well-being, concept of, 199, 201–2,
208–9, 218
weltanschauung, 38–39
Westerhof, G., 203
WFD. See World Federation of the Deaf
Widell, J., 56, 137
wisdom of deaf community, 202
Women for Change, 237
Wood, Phil, 216
Woodward, J., 41, 80, 81
World Congress of African Linguistics
(WOCAL-7) workshop, 223, 227,
229–30
World Federation of the Deaf (WFD):
Conference on Endangered Sign
Languages, 26; congresses of, 34, 90;
Deaf Human Rights and Capacity
Building Training Project, 16, 111,
115, 117, 212, 219–20; training in
Cameroon, 221; training in Central
and West Africa, 226
worldview and science, 38–39
Writing Culture (Clifford & Marcus), 177Young, Alys, 156Zhou, Jiayi, 218, 219
zone of proximal development, 86,
91–92, 94–97