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81) Deaf like Pluto
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"Pluto is Kaira's favorite planet--even though now it isn't really a planet--because Pluto and Kaira are a lot alike. Pluto is...different. It didn't fit in, so it was excluded. Kaira is all too familiar with how that feels, but maybe, just maybe, things are about to start changing."--Back cover.
82) Charlie and Fuzz
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"A heartwarming story about a young, deaf child called Charlie and how they make the most of the senses they have to meet a wonderful, unusual new friend in Fuzz."--Back cover.
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"Young Marco Lippa is a healthy twelve-year-old: carefree and prone to dreaming. The star pitcher for his baseball team, he hits the winning home run against their cross-town rivals. But the revelry soon turns into something different, as Marco becomes sick. Rushed to the hospital and stuck with needles, poked and prodded, his world spins out of control. When he wakes up, he's deaf, and his dreams crumble. Sounds Of Silence tells the story of Marco...
86) The lip reader
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"Set in Iran during the 1960s and 1970s, and later in Los Angeles, California, Zhila Shirazi tells her story firsthand. She reveals the real-life struggle of being a deaf woman who refuses to allow adversity to stop her from reaching her dreams of living a normal and fulfilling life. In 1985, disgusted with the treatment of Jews by the new Islamic government, Zhila immigrates to the United States in pursuit of better circumstances and a chance to...
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Annie Edwards was born deaf but she's never let that define her. She's settling in as freshman at Whitney Briggs University, loves her dorm, her roommate, her classes, but something feels as though it's missing. Enter Blake Daniels. He's everything Annie is not: a rocker, a player, a college dropout. Her friends want to sleep with him, her brothers want to kill him and all Annie wants is a chance to see where her heart takes her.
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"Partially deaf due to a childhood illness, Gerald Shea is no stranger to the search for communicative grace and clarity. In this eloquent and thoroughly researched book, he uncovers the centuries-long struggle of the Deaf to be taught in sign language--the only language that renders them complete, fully communicative human beings. Shea explores the history of the deeply biased attitudes toward the Deaf in Europe and America, which illogically forced...
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Using a mixture of prose and poetry, Angie C. Orlando shares indelible stories about growing up in a small Ohioan town, complete with posing for family pictures, watching high school football games, and playing saxophone in a marching band. Yet she is equally funny and unflinchingly honest about how classmates, medical professionals, and others have viewed her multiple disabilities, all of which had gradually become apparent over time. Through it...
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That Deaf Kid is a valuable resource for parents of deaf and hard of hearing children. It examines the ongoing tug-of-war between mainstreaming, deaf schools, hearing aids, cochlear implants, sign language, speech therapy, and more. That Deaf Kid brings these issues to light and shows how it's possible to have a healthy balance. Most important, it builds a critical bridge between fitting in and belonging. When we cross that bridge, we encourage deaf...
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What makes Mary so marvelous? She can speak with her hands and her voice, and listen with her eyes and with tiny computers hidden inside her head. This picture book helps introduce children to Deafness and the process of getting cochlear implants. It emphasizes Mary's love for sign language and Deaf culture, and how her surgery was a way of gaining greater access to the world. The book helps familiarize siblings or classmates with Deafness, and includes...
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"Sign languages are non-written languages. Hence, the life stories of elderly Deaf signers (i.e., signers born in the 1930s and 1940s) are under serious threat of being lost. This volume constitutes the first effort to document some of these unique stories, both positive and negative ones, thus contributing to the preservation of the cultural and linguistic heritage of Deaf communities."--Back cover.
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"Inspired by a true story, a 15th century Scottish princess named Joanna was born deaf and raised by King James I and Queen Beaufort, who desperately seek to find a suitor to marry her to gain alliances. In spite of a series of unfortunate events surrounding beautiful Joanna, she sees love in a different way and finds a real challenge: who wants to marry a deaf princess? Joanna the Deaf Princess is a story about the spirit of true love against odds."--...
97) deaf not Deaf
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"Rian is starting her sixth grade year in a new home and at a new school in Northeast Philadelphia. On her first day, she is greeted by Shack, the class bully, who wastes no time breaking one of her cochlear implants. She's used to feeling like an outsider, but nothing could prepare her for life at John Hancock Elementary. Her teachers can't pronounce her name, the "normal" kids think she's Deaf and the Deaf kids think she's a joke, especially Luis...
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This textbook has been designed to emphasize the differences between languages and how this affects the translation of a text from one language into another. It is based upon the principle that the translator must first know the meaning of the source text before he can translate it into the receptor language. Meaning is presented as a structure which stands behind any text. Meaning-based, rather than form-based, translation is the goal of the textbook....
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"Plays of Our Own is the first anthology of its kind containing an eclectic range of plays by Deaf and hard-of-hearing writers. These writers have made major, positive contributions to world drama or Deaf theatre arts. Their topics range from those completely unrelated to deafness to those with strong deaf-related themes such as: a dreamy, headstrong girl surviving a male-dominated world in Depression-era Ireland; a famous Spanish artist losing his...
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"From haunted Civil War battlefields to a severed ear discovered on a nightly run; from lab-grown dinosaurs to forest creatures that steal away children under the cover of night; from deadly bio-engineered fleas to a burning teenage desire for cybernetic amputations: Deaf and hard of hearing authors from around the world bring you this fun, though oftentimes disturbing, collection of short fiction."--
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