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ISBN: 1563680289
Title: All of Us Together; The Story of Inclusion at the Kinzie School
Author: Jeri Banks
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Date Published: June 1994
Format: Pop Up Book

ISBN: 1884362133
Title: Living Legends; ...Six Stories about Successful Deaf People
Author: Darlene Toole
Publisher: Butte Publications, Incorporated
Date Published: January 1996
Format: Trade Paper

ISBN: 188436232X
Title: Living Legends II
Author: Darlene Toole
Publisher: Butte Publications, Incorporated
Date Published: June 1998
Format: Trade Paper

ISBN: 156368019X
Title: No Walls of Stone: An Anthology of Literature by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Writers
Author: Jill Jepson (Editor)
Publisher: Gallaudet
Date Published: June 1997
Format: Trade Cloth

ISBN: 096618260X
Title: The Consumer Handbook on Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids: A Bridge to Healing
Author: Richard Carmen (Editor)
Publisher: Auricle Ink Publishers
Date Published: April 1998
Format: Trade Paper

"...offers professional recommendations for people experiencing hearing loss."

ISBN: 0930599454
Title: Do You Hear Me?: Laughs for the Hard of Hearing by the Hard of Hearing
Author: Maxwell Schneider
Publisher: Thinking Publications
Date Published: September 1997
Format: Trade Paper

ISBN: 1566393523
Title: The Feel of Silence
Author: Bonnie Poitras Tucker, Foreword by Fred Hafferty
Publisher: Temple University Press
Date Published: September 1995
Format: Trade Paper

ISBN: 0930323734
Title: The Hearing Aid Handbook : User's Guide for Children
Author: Donna S. Wayner
Publisher: Gallaudet
Date Published: May 1990
Format: Trade Paper

ISBN: 0935997148
Title: Hearing Loss Help: How You Can Help Someone with Hearing Loss and how They Can Help Themselves
Author: Alec B. Combs
Publisher: Alpenglow Press
Date Published: January 1988
Format: Trade Paper

ISBN: 1563680130
Title: How to Survive Hearing Loss
Author: Charlotte Himber, Foreword by Richard Dysart
Publisher: Gallaudet
Date Published: October 1991
Format: Trade Paper

"...The author provides a good deal of useful information on kinds of hearing loss, how hearing is evaluated, and suggests some helpful coping mechanisms...."--Library Journal

ISBN: 1563680238
Title: Missing Words; The Family Handbook on Adult Hearing Loss
Author: Kay Thomsett, Eve Nickerson, Designed by Donald H. Holden
Publisher: Gallaudet
Date Published: May 1993
Format: Pop Up Book

Written by Eve Nickerson, who has lost her hearing, and her daughter Kay Thomsett, Missing Words lays out the practical steps families can take to adjust to one member's hearing loss. The authors share their personal experiences and the various methods they learned for handling these dramatic changes.

ISBN: 0806521406
Title: When the Hearing Gets Hard; Winning the Battle against Hearing Impairment
Author: Elaine Suss
Publisher: Carol Publishing Group
Date Published: January 1999
Format: Trade Paper

Elaine Suss, a hearing-impaired journalist, examines hearing loss with sensitivity, empowering people to overcome their impairment and live a rewarding life. It features a critically important, wide-ranging list of medications that may cause hearing impairment.

ISBN: 0306445050
Title: When the Hearing Gets Hard; Winning the Battle against Hearing Impairment
Author: Elaine Suss, Foreword by Ruth R. Green
Publisher: Perseus Books
Date Published: September 1993
Format: Trade Cloth

ISBN: 1563680440
Title: Silent Alarm; On the Edge with a Deaf EMT
Author: Steven L. Schrader
Publisher: Gallaudet
Date Published: September 1995
Format: Pop Up Book

ISBN: 1563680165
Title: Seeds of Disquiet; One Deaf Woman's Experience
Author: Cheryl M. Heppner
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Date Published: April 1992
Format: Pop Up Book

ISBN: 0060914254
Title: A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family
Author: Lou Ann Walker
Publisher: Harper & Row Publishers, Incorporated
Date Published: August 1987
Format: Trade Paper

"A deeply moving, often humorous, and beautiful account of what it means to be the hearing child of profoundly deaf parents." --Oliver Sacks

ISBN: 0930323114
Title: Deaf like Me
Author: Thomas S. Spradley, James P. Spradley
Publisher: Gallaudet
Date Published: September 1989
Format: Trade Paper

"...This story sensitively weaves reality and learning in with a fairly simple account of coming to terms with deafness...."--Rehabilitation Literature

ISBN: 1563680556
Title: The Silents
Author: Charlotte Abrams
Publisher: Gallaudet
Date Published: December 1996
Format: Pop Up Book

ISBN: 0930323688
Title: Speak to Me!
Author: Marcia Calhoun Forecki
Publisher: Gallaudet
Date Published: December 1989
Format: Trade Paper

"This compelling, true-life story deals with a single parent making the discovery that her 1 1/2 year-old son is deaf."--Rehabilitative Literature

ISBN: 0930323629
Title: Voyage to the Island
Author: Raija Nieminen
Publisher: Gallaudet
Date Published: October 1990
Format: Pop Up Book

ISBN: 1563680246
Title: When the Phone Rings, My Bed Shakes: Memoirs of a Deaf Doctor
Author: Philip Zazove
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Date Published: October 1993
Format: Trade Cloth

ISBN: 0930323483
Title: Discovering Sign Language
Author: Laura Greene, Eva Barash Dicker
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Date Published: June 1997
Format: Trade Paper

Discusses the development of sign language and describes how it is used in conjunction with finger spelling, speechreading, and other forms of communication to help individuals with impaired hearing.

ISBN: 0933149859
Title: Choices in Deafness: A Parents' Guide to Communication Options
Author: Sue Schwartz (Editor)
Publisher: Woodbine House
Date Published: January 1996
Format: Trade Paper

ISBN: 1563680629
Title: Deaf Children in Public Schools; Placement, Context, and Consequences
Author: Claire L. Ramsey
Publisher: Gallaudet
Date Published: September 1997
Format: Pop Up Book

ISBN: 0933149735
Title: The New Language of Toys: Teaching Communication Skills to Children with Special Needs
Author: Sue Schwartz, Joan E. Heller Miller, Robert Burke (Photographer)
Publisher: Woodbine House
Date Published: March 1996
Format: Trade Paper

ISBN: 1563680319
Title: Kid-Friendly Parenting with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children: A Treasury of Fun Activities toward Better Behavior
Author: Daria J. Medwid, Denise Chapman Weston, Denise Chapman Weston
Publisher: Gallaudet
Date Published: December 1995
Format: Trade Paper

ISBN: 1563680696
Title: The Signing Family : What Every Parent Should Know about Sign Communication
Author: David Alan Stewart, B. Luetke-Stahlman
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Date Published: May 1998
Format: Trade Paper

ISBN: 0963073842
Title: Say That Again, Please!: Insights in Dealing with a Hearing Loss
Author: Thomas H. Bradford
Publisher: Bradford Publications
Date Published: September 1991
Format: Trade Cloth

ISBN: 1563680580
Title: The Silent Garden: Raising Your Deaf Child
Author: Paul W. Ogden
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Date Published: November 1996
Format: Trade Paper

ISBN: 0912752270
Title: When Your Child Is Deaf: A Guide for Parents
Author: David M. Luterman, Mark Ross
Publisher: York Press, Incorporated
Date Published: October 1991
Format: Trade Paper

ISBN: 1563680602
Title: You and Your Deaf Child; A Self-Help Guide for Parents of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children
Author: John W. Adams, Susie Duckworth (Illustrator), Designed by Alice Fernandes-Brown
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Date Published: August 1997
Format: Trade Paper

ISBN: 1895579325
Title: Wired for Sound: A Journey Into Hearing
Author: Beverly Biderman, Wendy Thomas (Editor)
Publisher: Trifolium Books Inc.
Date Published: August 1998
Format: Trade Paper

This rare "inside" account of hearing with a cochlear implant, the first effective artificial sensory organ, is a moving story about a deaf woman's journey through deafness and into hearing. Essential for understanding both deafness and the strange experience of hearing with a cochlear implant. With a foreword by John K. Niparko M.D., Professor of Otolaryngology, Director of The Listening Center at Johns Hopkins. Includes the voices of a wide range of deaf people talking about their deafness, and a balanced exploration of the explosive issues of the Deaf culture's opposition to cochlear implants. Detailed appendix includes a comprehensive listing of over 75 international resources on deafness and cochlear implants, plus an index, an annotated recommended reading list, and over 100 endnotes documenting current research.

ISBN: 0930323165
Title: Wired for Sound: An Advanced Student Workbook on Hearing and Hearing Aids
Author: Carole Bugosh Simko, Jan Skrobisz (Illustrator)
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Date Published: June 1997
Format: Trade Cloth

ISBN: 0786405341
Title: Cochlear Implants: A Handbook
Author: Bonnie Tucker
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers
Date Published: January 1999
Format: Trade Cloth

ISBN: 1566396824
Title: Missed Connections: Hard of Hearing in a Hearing World
Author: Barbara Stenross
Publisher: Temple University Press
Date Published: April 1999
Format: Paperback

ISBN: 1566396816
Title: Missed Connections: Hard of Hearing in a Hearing World
Author: Barbara Stenross
Publisher: Temple University Press
Date Published: May 1999
Format: Hardcover

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