Tom L. Humphries is an American academic, author, and lecturer on

Deaf culture Deaf culture is the set of social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values, and shared institutions of communities that are influenced by deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication. When used as ...

and deaf communication. Humphries is a professor at the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego in communications material, formerly and colloquially UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California, United States. Es ...

(UCSD).University of California, San Diego
Humphries faculty bio
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Early life

Humphries coined the term

audism Audism as described by deaf activists is a form of discrimination directed against deaf people, which may include those diagnosed as deaf from birth, or otherwise. Tom L. Humphries coined the term in an unpublished manuscript in 1975, which he ...

in an unpublished paper in 1975 and repeated the term in his doctoral PDE (Project Demonstrating Excellence) in 1977.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 Union Institute & University (UI&U) was a private online university that was headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. It also operated satellite campuses in Florida and California. In early 2023, it began to experience severe financial challenge ...

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 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.WorldCat IdentitiesHumphries, Tom (Tom L.)
/ref> His works are created with his wife and co-author,

Carol Padden Carol A. Padden (born 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is an American academic, author, and lecturer. She is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego, where she has been teaching since 1983. Background ...

. * ''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.

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