books about: deafness     books:       A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family16 reviews Lou Ann Walker Harper Perennial, 1987 Honest insight into our world As the oldest child in a family with deaf parents, I can totally relate to what the author went through. I was disturbed by a few of the reviews I read though. People are so quick to judge when they don't have a clue about the world that hearing children of deaf parents live in. I went through all the same experiences that the author did as well as many more. As the oldest child I too was ...             Orientation to Deafness (2nd Edition)1 review Nanci A. Scheetz Allyn & Bacon, 2000 Too damn expensive! How is it that a book with 300 pages can cost $80? I see brand new books in book stores all around the US that cost no more than $30. I guess Ms. Scheetz, along with the publisher, know that college students will be required to use the book, so why the hell shouldn't they charge $80. Thanks for making my college years thin on cash!             What's That Pig Outdoors?: A Memoir of Deafness8 reviews Henry Kisor Penguin (Non-Classics), 1991 About being Deaf by someone who is Deaf. I read this book back in 93 when I had just lost my hearing. I was 14 and dealing with suddenly becoming deaf. Most books about Deafness are written by physicians, or parents of the deaf, or children of the deaf, and not by the deaf themselves. Kisor's stories about lipreading and growing up and just being Deaf were wonderful for me to read. It gave me hope... if he is totally Deaf and can ...             Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard8 reviews Nora Ellen Groce Harvard University Press, 1985 Very readable I bought the book because I found out my great grandparents were deaf and that my great grandmother was from Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard. The book was very interesting although I didn't learn much about my particular relatives.             The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa45 reviews Josh Swiller Holt Paperbacks, 2007 A Great Read I love this book. I've recommended it to just about everyone I've spoken to since I finished it. It is a wonderful memoir. It is hard to put down, and it's incredible to reflect on. Read it.             My Sense of Silence: Memoirs of a Childhood with Deafness5 reviews Lennard J. Davis University of Illinois Press, 2008 Perfect pitch How to adequately praise an amazing memoir that is by turns comic, tragic, brave, immensely kind (never cloying) and seemingly photographically rendered? Davis presents the reader with how his young life looked, smelled, sounded - and most importantly, how it felt. It's a remarkable story of growing up in the now-lost world of the working-class Bronx (Tremont Avenue) of the 1950's, the much ...             Choices in Deafness: A Parents' Guide to Communication Options8 reviews Woodbine House, 2007 Choices in Deafness As a mom with a one year old newly diagnosed as severely deaf, I found this book very helpful. After going online and learning of all the controversy surrounding deaf issues,it was refreshing to find a book that gave equal time to differing views. This book led me to making the choice that is right for our child and our family. I loved that it gave professional veiwpoints for each ...             Living With a Deaf Dog: A Book of Advice, Facts and Experiences About Canine Deafness19 reviews Susan C. Becker S.C. Becker, 1997 So much help! This book tremendously helped me understand my 3 yr. old deaf dog, Patch so much better. I didn't understand some of his behaviors and I could not find helpful books at the library. From the author's stories, tips, and advice, I have a much better understanding of what he goes through and why he exhibits some behaviors. I've had him for a year with trial especially with walking him. Since ...             Deafness and Challenging Behaviour: The 360° Perspective Sally Austen, Dave Jeffery Wiley, 2007 Challenging behaviours, such as aggression and violence, are more common in deaf people than hearing people. Filling a crucial gap in the international market, this book will appeal equally to those who work occasionally or entirely with Deaf or hearing impaired client groups of all ages. Multi-disciplinary professionals with specialist knowledge of working with deaf people explore aspects of mild to severe challenging behaviour with ...             Samedi the Deafness (Vintage Contemporaries)6 reviews Jesse Ball Vintage, 2007 Now Hear This! This is a very quick read that doesn't leave you quickly. Ball has written a book with violence that we never see; with characters we don' t really get to know; set in a place we never identify; about events that hopefully will never happen. He has a relaxed style of writing that makes the story move along. I hope he writes more - soon!             Literacy and Deafness: The Development of Reading, Writing, and Literate Thought3 reviews Peter V. Paul Allyn & Bacon, 1997 Excellent meta-analysis This book is a compilation of the current research regarding deafness and literacy. This book is geared toward researchers and educators. It is very extensive in nature and contains information necessary to properly educate Deaf children for improved literacy outcomes. Previous reviews of this book have been harsh, I do not know what the purpose of this information was for other reviewers, but ...             Outsiders in a Hearing World: A Sociology of Deafness Paul C. Higgins Sage Publications, Inc, 1981 The deaf are outsiders in a world largely created and controlled by those who hear. Based on intensive interviewing, observation, and the personal experience of the author (whose parents are deaf), Outsiders in a Hearing World examines the lives of deaf people within a social and historical context. It examines the communities created by deaf people and the identities of their members, and describes and analyzes the everyday interactions between ...             Mental Health and Deafness Peter Hindley, Nick Kitson Wiley, 2005 This is an introductory text to mental health and deaf people for care workers and mental health workers, both those familiar with deaf people but not with mental health and those familiar with mental health but not with deaf people. The first section, Assessment, includes topics ranging from child and adolescent psychiatry, adult psychiatry, children who are deaf and have multiple disabilities, addictive behaviour and deafness, to maltreatment ...             Language and Deafness Peter Paul Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2008 Assists students using Language and Deafness, Second Edition in courses. For each chapter in the main text, the study guide provides questions and exercises designed to enhance students' understanding of important topics. Answers to comprehension questions are provided in the Appendix of the main text.             The Encyclopedia of Deafness and Hearing Disorders (Facts on File Library of Health and Living)1 review Carol Turkington, Allen E. Sussman Facts on File, 2003 Includes the legal rights for the hearing impaired Now in an updated and expanded second edition, the Facts On File Encyclopedia Of Deafness and Hearing Disorders provides a comprehensive and "user friendly" reference of basic information on hearing disorders and deafness, from types of conditions to the legal rights for the hearing impaired, treatment options, and degrees of hearing loss. An excellent, basic reference which should be considered ...             Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature2 reviews Christopher Krentz The University of North Carolina Press, 2007 Seeing the Hearing Line This is an original and provocative book. Addressing W. E. B. DuBois's concept of "the color line" in the 20th century, Krentz argues that 19th century American literature grappled with a "hearing line," i.e. a contested boundary between hearingness (the author's coinage) and deafness. He examines how this hearing line appears in work by deaf authors and also in the canonical authors of the ...             Deafness and Mental Health John Denmark Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1994             New Self Help: Tinnitus: Self-Help Drug-Free Methods for Dealing with Tinnitus and Catarrhal Deafness (New ... Arthur White Thorsons, 1986 A detailed plan of action for self-treatment is included, complete with a week's suggested menus.             Lost Senses: Deafness and Blindness John Kitto Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2003 This work contains two smaller related works. In the Lost Senses: Deafness, the author, having become deaf at the age of twelve, pens this book as a record of his experience. It is not his intention to refer to the events or studies of his life, but to use them to bring out the points and peculiarities of the deaf condition. He selects only those events which arise from, which illustrate, or which are in any remarkable way connected with his ...              search for books american, behaviour, blindness, catarrhal, challenging, childhood, communication, contemporaries, deafness, development, disorders, drug-free, encyclopedia, everyone, experiences, hereditary, language, literacy, literate, literature, nineteenth, nineteenth-century, orientation, outdoors, outsiders, perspective, self-help, sociology, tinnitus, vineyard books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen DVD: Bamboozled (New Line Platinum Series) leave a comment home  impressum - about us