Deaf Education/Parenting
Made To Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children
Based on accounts of an interviews with families who adopt the cochlear implant for their deaf children, this book describes the experiences of mothers as they navigate the health care system, their interactions with professionals, and the influence of neuroscience. ...
If A Tree Falls: A Family’s Quest to Hear and Be Heard
Jennifer Rosner's revelatory memoir explores family, silence, and what it means to be heard. When her daughters are born deaf, Rosner is stunned. Then she discovers a hidden history of deafness in her family, going back generations to the Jewish enclaves of Eastern...
Raising and Educating A Deaf Child
The second edition of this guide offers a readable, comprehensive summary of everything a parent or teacher would want to know about raising and educating a deaf child. It covers topics ranging from what it means to be deaf to the many ways that the environments of ...
The Parenting Journey
Karen Putz grew up hard of hearing and became deaf as a teen. She spent a lot of time working with families with deaf and hard of hearing children, providing support and guidance. When her three children began losing their hearing one by one, Karen figured she had ...
Choices in Deafness
An invaluable guide to the world of deaf education, the second edition of Choices in Deafness is expanded to cover two additional communication options, providing an unbiased, thorough overview of the following methods: Auditory-Verbal approach, Bilingual-Bicultural...
Our Forgotten Children: Hard of Hearing Pupils in the Schools (Third Edition)
The third edition of Our Forgotten Children provides up-to-date information on the education of children who are hard of hearing. Key topics include definitions, early intervention, medical aspects of hearing loss, classroom acoustics, the latest technology in heari...
How Deaf Children Learn: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know
In this invaluable guide, renowned authorities Mark Marschark and Peter Hauser highlight important new advances in scientific and educational research that can help parents and teachers of students with significant hearing loss The authors stress that deaf children ...
Alone in the Mainstream
When Gina Oliva first went to school in 1955, she didn't know that she was "different." But, when the kindergarten teacher played the piano to signal the next activity and other students began to move, Oliva didn't react. She couldn't hear the music. So began her ...
The Parents’ Guide to Cochlear Implants
Now, parents of deaf children have at hand a complete guide to the process of cochlear implantation. Written by two eminent professionals in deaf education, The Parents' Guide to Cochlear Implants explains in a friendly, easy-to-follow style each stage of the proces...
Children With Hearing Loss
This book was written for parents, siblings and extended family members who want a better understanding of the impact hearing loss can have in their young loved one. Hearing loss in children can have more devastating effects than in adults because it can impair the ...