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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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Joanne Weber uses a fable of a heroic quest to tell the story of her struggle as a deaf person to uncover her true self. Combining the narrative tools of a novelist with those of a documentarian, Weber effectively provides the reader with rare insight and profound truths about the lives of the deaf.
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"This memoir is an unflinching look at the life experience of a woman struggling with identity and isolation. In harrowing yet lyrical prose, Pauline Leader assails her poverty and Jewish heritage and longs to fit in with her "American" peers. Born in 1908, she describes her home life as the daughter of Polish immigrants who run a butcher's market and boarding houses in a small New England town. Frequent beatings and sinister remarks issued by her...
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Life After Deaf is the true story of a woman whose life began to unravel after she suddenly went deaf due to a mystery illness. Author Monique Williamson tells the shocking and frightening story of becoming deaf overnight, first in one ear, then the other...even after being told by doctors that lightning never strikes twice. Life after becoming deaf was very challenging and Monique was forced to learn to adapt. Throughout her ordeal, she gained a...
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"Victor Abbou is an invaluable witness to the period in France which is called the Deaf Awakening. His story is a treasure trove of archival material of that period, as he was one of the trailblazers in so many fields: actor, activist, trainer and teacher of future interpreters studying at the university. In doing all of this, he created bridges between two worlds, the world of the deaf and the world of the hearing, which were in close proximity but...
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Jennifer A. Hertneky, 26 years old, is deaf. She lives with her deaf husband, Brian, and their two beautiful children in Frisco, Texas. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, she was raised in Brampton, Ontario. She graduated from George Brown College in Toronto and earned a certificate as a Makeup Artist. In July, 2014, she was a contestant as Miss Canada at the Miss and Mister Deaf International, Inc., held in England. She has the gifts/spirit of a Christian....
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"One fateful day in 1977, I met and conversed with my first deaf student and threw every other career idea out the window. I decided I would become a Teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Deafness? Sign language? Interpreting? What did I know about these? Yet, meeting and connecting with that young student had changed how I thought about the world and eventually changed who I am. Now, after 39 years as a Teacher of Deaf and Hard of Hearing, I still...
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An insightful memoir about growing up between the hearing and deaf worlds.
Myron Uhlberg was born the hearing son of two deaf parents at a time when American Sign Language was not well established and deaf people were often dismissed as being unintelligent. In this moving and eye-opening memoir, he recalls the daily difficulties and hidden joys of growing up as the intermediary between his parents' silent world and the world of the
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Being in both the deaf and hearing world has given Melissa Kilner so much opportunity in learning how to speak, read lips and use sign language -- they are two different worlds with different cultures. Having been born profoundly deaf, Melissa wished she knew more about how to accept herself from a young age, and learn how to experience, see and feel things without the sounds. She is so grateful she got to go out there into the world, exploring with...
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"Profoundly deafened as an infant, Don Fulk didn't learn his name or go to school until the age of ten. At the age of 18 and a budding superstar on his football and basketball teams he broke his neck and was confined to a bed for eight years. When his family could no longer care for him, he spend nine years in a nursing home where he suffered from abuse and neglect. Yet though life marred by frustration and isolation, Don endured the courage, tenacity...
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Born Deaf, Linda was of Chinese ancestry. Her family included 3 hearing sisters and 2 Deaf brothers. This is the story of Linda's growing up; marriage and family; and career as educator and community advocate. Linda loves theater and travel. She now dedicates her career to preserving her first language -- Hawai'i Sign Language.
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"In Voice, Adam Pottle explores the crucial role deafness has played in the growth of his imagination, and in doing so presents a unique perspective on a writer's development. Born deaf in both ears, Pottle recounts what it was like growing up in a world of muted sound, and how his deafness has influenced virtually everything about his writing, from his use of language to character and plot choices. Salty, bold, and relentlessly honest, Voice makes...
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"Kevin J. Nolan Sr., the nation's first born-deaf city councilor and one of the nation's first deaf people to serve on a jury, shares an entertaining narrative that explores the highs and lows of his life. Kevin attended a private school for deaf students where he used his keen sense of humor to entertain others in an era when use of sign language was prohibited on campus. At home, Kevin was frustrated by his family's continued denial of his being...
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