Deaf Child Crossing

2013-04-30 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Marlee Matlin
Release : 2013-04-30
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 154/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Deaf Child Crossing by : Marlee Matlin

Download or read book Deaf Child Crossing written by Marlee Matlin. This book was released on 2013-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling and humorous story of friendship from Academy Award–winning actress Marlee Matlin. Cindy looked straight at Megan. Now she looked a little frustrated. "What's the matter? Are you deaf or something?" she yelled back. Megan screamed out, and then fell to the ground, laughing hysterically. "How did you know that?" she asked as she laughed. Megan is excited when Cindy moves into her neighborhood—maybe she’ll finally have a best friend. Sure enough, the two girls quickly become inseparable. Cindy even starts to learn sign language so they can communicate more easily. But when they go away to summer camp together, problems arise. Cindy feels left out because Megan is spending all of her time with Lizzie, another deaf girl; Megan resents that Cindy is always trying to help her, even when she doesn’t need help. Before they can mend their differences, both girls have to learn what it means to be a friend.

Nobody's Perfect

2015-07-14 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Marlee Matlin
Release : 2015-07-14
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 393/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Nobody's Perfect by : Marlee Matlin

Download or read book Nobody's Perfect written by Marlee Matlin. This book was released on 2015-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Megan has spent forever planning her positively purple birthday sleepover. She's even made glittery purple invitations for every girl in her class. Then a new girl, Alexis Powell, joins their class. Alexis seems perfect: She's smart, pretty, and rules the soccer games on the playground. But no matter how hard Megan tries to be a friend to Alexis, the new girl is aloof or rude. At first Megan thinks Alexis is shy. Then Megan starts to fear that Alexis is treating her differently because she's deaf. When the girls are forced to collaborate on a science fair project, Megan learns the truth -- and realizes that nobody's perfect. Once again Marlee Matlin draws on experiences from her own childhood to tell Megan's story. In this funny, poignant book, readers will root for Megan, a spirited young girl who doesn't let anything stand in her way.

Leading Ladies

2015-07-14 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Marlee Matlin
Release : 2015-07-14
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 385/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Leading Ladies written by Marlee Matlin. This book was released on 2015-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It doesn't make sense to me...in the book, Dorothy is a girl who can hear and talk—and Toto is a little dog. So I'm sorry—but I just don't see a Dorothy who's deaf and talks with her hands and has a great big dog for Toto!" Megan's fourth grade class is putting on their own original musical based on the book The Wizard of Oz, and Megan wants to be the star of the show and play Dorothy. Since she's deaf, she will sign the songs for her audition. However, a problem develops when Lizzie, her best friend from camp, transfers from her all-deaf school to Megan's class - and signs the same two songs that Megan was going to do! Luckily, Megan has some other ideas up her sleeve... Academy Award–winning actress Marlee Matlin and Doug Cooney follow Deaf Child Crossing and Nobody's Perfect with this winning story that perfectly captures the humor, joys, and frustration of childhood friendships.

Made to Hear

2016-02-29 Social Science

Author : Laura Mauldin
Release : 2016-02-29
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 891/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Made to Hear written by Laura Mauldin. This book was released on 2016-02-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother whose child has had a cochlear implant tells Laura Mauldin why enrollment in the sign language program at her daughter’s school is plummeting: “The majority of parents want their kids to talk.” Some parents, however, feel very differently, because “curing” deafness with cochlear implants is uncertain, difficult, and freighted with judgment about what is normal, acceptable, and right. Made to Hear sensitively and thoroughly considers the structure and culture of the systems we have built to make deaf children hear. Based on accounts of and 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 the professionals who work with them, and the influence of neuroscience on the process. Though Mauldin explains the politics surrounding the issue, her focus is not on the controversy of whether to have a cochlear implant but on the long-term, multiyear undertaking of implantation. Her study provides a nuanced view of a social context in which science, technology, and medicine are trusted to vanquish disability—and in which mothers are expected to use these tools. Made to Hear reveals that implantation has the central goal of controlling the development of the deaf child’s brain by boosting synapses for spoken language and inhibiting those for sign language, placing the politics of neuroscience front and center. Examining the consequences of cochlear implant technology for professionals and parents of deaf children, Made to Hear shows how certain neuroscientific claims about neuroplasticity, deafness, and language are deployed to encourage compliance with medical technology.

Deaf Like Me

1985 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Thomas S. Spradley
Release : 1985
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 110/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Deaf Like Me by : Thomas S. Spradley

Download or read book Deaf Like Me written by Thomas S. Spradley. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The parents of a child born without hearing describe their efforts to reach across the barrier of silence to teach their daughter to speak and enjoy a normal life.

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