Harlan Lane

Harlan Lane

Harlan Lane is a professor of psychology and linguistics at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. He specializes in research on Deaf culture and sign language. In 1991, Professor Lane received a MacArthur Foundation "genius award". He has become an often controversial spokesman for the Deaf community and critic of cochlear implants.

Dr. Lane's baccalaureate and master's degrees are in psychology from Columbia University. His Ph.D. is in psychology from Harvard University, where he studied under B. F. Skinner. He also holds a doctoral degree in linguistics from the University of Paris.

He is "Commandeur de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques", the highest level of the academic honor given out by the French government.

Books published

*Looking Back - Hardcover ISBN 3-927731-32-3, Publisher - Gallaudet University Press
*The Deaf Experience: Classics in Language and Education - Hardcover ISBN 0-674-19460-8, Publisher - Harvard University Press
*The Mask Of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community - Hardcover ISBN 0-679-40462-7, Publisher Knopf - Paperback ISBN 1-58121-009-4, Publisher - Dawnsign Press
*The Wild Boy of Aveyron - (Hardcover ISBN 0-674-95282-0 & Paperback ISBN 0-674-95300-2) Publisher - Harvard University Press
*When the Mind Hears - (Hardcover ISBN 0-394-50878-5, Publisher - Random House // Paperback ISBN 0-679-72023-5, Publisher - Vintage) (Download Chapter 1, "My New Family": http://saveourdeafschools.org/when_the_mind_hears_chapter_1.pdf)

He is the author, with Ben Bahan and Robert Hoffmeister, of "A Journey into the Deaf World" (1996, ISBN 0-915035-63-4). *A Journey into the Deaf-World - (Hardcover ISBN 0-915035-62-6 & Paperback ISBN 0-915035-63-4) Publisher - Dawnsign Press

He is the author, with Christian Wayser, of "Make every minute count: More than 700 Tips and Strategies That Will Revolutionize How You Manage Your Time" (2000, ISBN 1-56924-613-0). Publisher - New York : Marlowe & Co

External links

* [http://www.psych.neu.edu/people/faculty/lane.html Harlan Lane's homepage at Northeastern University]


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