Biographies/Memoirs
Hidden Frustrations
Hidden Frustrations chronicles a young woman's remarkable journey of determination. Maureen Mann shares her history as a hard-of-hearing student, striving to learn in mainstream educational settings. She recounts seemingly innocuous school experiences that managed ...
The Silents
Author Charlotte Abrams presents this proud family sketch early on in her memoir of life in Chicago with her sister and her deaf parents. Hers is a loving portrayal of how a close Jewish family survived the Depression and the home front hardships of World War II wit...
My Sense of Silence
Lennard J. Davis grew up as the hearing child of deaf parents. In this candid, affecting, and often funny memoir, he recalls the joys and confusions of this special world, especially his complex and sometimes difficult relationships with his working-class Jewish immi...
Deaf Like Me
Deaf Like Me is the moving account of parents coming to terms with their baby girl's profound deafness. The love, hope, and anxieties of all hearing parents of deaf children are expressed here with power and simplicity. In the epilogue, Lynn Spradley as a teenager re...
Hands of My Father
By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg’s memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents—and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it.
“Does sound have rhyt...
A Quiet World Living with Hearing Loss
Some 28 million people in America and 350 million people worldwide live with hearing loss. How do these people and their families cope? What are their experiences of pain, humor, and hope? What support do medicine and technology now offer them, and what is on the ...
I Was Number 87
A Deaf Woman's Ordeal of Misdiagnosis, Institutionalization
In relating the story of how she was misdiagnosed as retarded rather than deaf and mistreated at home and at an institution, a longtime employee of General Motors writes: "I sincerely hope that this ...
What’s That Pig Outdoors
Veteran journalist Henry Kisor lost his hearing at age three. With the help of a supportive family and an unconventional teacher, he was, however, always encouraged to participate in the hearing world. In this engaging memoir, Kisor recounts what life as a deaf per...