Making sense in sign: a lifeline for a deaf child
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Froude, Jenny (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Clevedon [UK] Multilingual Matters ©2003
Series:Parents' and teachers' guides no. 6
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Online Access:FAW01
FAW02
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-178) and index
The time of crises -- Deafness may result -- Take my hands and let them move -- Channels of communication -- Good times -- bad times -- Coping and caring -- Growing up -- Sound or silence? -- Staying strong -- The big adventure -- Language for life -- Borneo and beyond -- What is deaf? -- Paths to understanding
Words were not enough for Tom; it was signs that made sense of a world silenced by meningitis. This work is an account by a woman of how her son contracted meningitis and of the deafness that resulted. It offers a discussion of the issues surrounding deafness from a parental viewpoint
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 180 pages)
ISBN:1853596280
1853596299
1853596302
9781853596285
9781853596292
9781853596308

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