Life After Deaf - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life After Deaf write by Noel Holston. This book was released on 2019-11-05. Life After Deaf available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From a renowned media critic to a man with sudden and full hearing loss, Noel Holston ran the gauntlet of diagnoses, health insurance, and cochlear implant surgery. On a spring night in 2010, Noel Holston, a journalist, songwriter, and storyteller, went to bed with reasonably intact hearing. By dawn, it was gone, thus beginning a long process of hearing-restoration that included misdiagnoses, an obstinate health-insurance bureaucracy, failed cochlear-implant surgery, and a second surgery that finally worked. He negotiated the gauntlet with a wry sense of humor and the aid of his supportive wife, Marty. Life After Deaf details his experience with warmth, understanding, and candor. It’s the story not only of his way back to the world of the hearing, but of a great marriage that weathered serious testing. Their determination and resilience serve as a source of inspiration for all. Life After Deaf is not just for the more than forty million people in the United States alone who cope with some form of hearing loss, but is also for their wide circles of friends, family, caregivers, and audiologists. This highly readable book will be an invaluable guide and source of hope for the large number of baby boomers now handling hearing loss.
Alone in the Mainstream
Alone in the Mainstream - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alone in the Mainstream write by Gina A. Oliva. This book was released on 2004. Alone in the Mainstream available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author describes her life and experiences as the only deaf child in her public schools.
Song Without Words
Song Without Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Song Without Words write by Gerald Shea. This book was released on 2013-02-26. Song Without Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At age 34, Shea discovered that he had been deaf since childhood despite somehow maintaining a prestigious legal career.
Deaf Utopia
Deaf Utopia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deaf Utopia write by Nyle DiMarco. This book was released on 2022-04-19. Deaf Utopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A heartfelt and inspiring memoir and celebration of Deaf culture by Nyle DiMarco, actor, producer, two-time reality show winner, and cultural icon of the international Deaf community Before becoming the actor, producer, advocate, and model that people know today, Nyle DiMarco was half of a pair of Deaf twins born to a multi-generational Deaf family in Queens, New York. At the hospital one day after he was born, Nyle “failed” his first test—a hearing test—to the joy and excitement of his parents. In this engrossing memoir, Nyle shares stories, both heartbreaking and humorous, of what it means to navigate a world built for hearing people. From growing up in a rough-and-tumble childhood in Queens with his big and loving Italian-American family to where he is now, Nyle has always been driven to explore beyond the boundaries given him. A college math major and athlete at Gallaudet—the famed university for the Deaf in Washington, DC—Nyle was drawn as a young man to acting, and dove headfirst into the reality show competitions America’s Next Top Model and Dancing with the Stars—ultimately winning both competitions. Deaf Utopia is more than a memoir, it is a cultural anthem—a proud and defiant song of Deaf culture and a love letter to American Sign Language, Nyle’s primary language. Through his stories and those of his Deaf brothers, parents, and grandparents, Nyle opens many windows into the Deaf experience. Deaf Utopia is intimate, suspenseful, hilarious, eye-opening, and smart—both a memoir and a celebration of what makes Deaf culture unique and beautiful.
Our Lives – Our Stories: Life Experiences of Elderly Deaf People
Our Lives – Our Stories: Life Experiences of Elderly Deaf People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Lives – Our Stories: Life Experiences of Elderly Deaf People write by Roland Pfau. This book was released on 2021-01-18. Our Lives – Our Stories: Life Experiences of Elderly Deaf People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sign languages are non-written languages. Given that the use of digital media and video recordings in documenting sign languages started only some 30 years ago, the life stories of Deaf elderly signers born in the 1930s-1940s have – except for a few scattered fragments in film – not been documented and are therefore under serious threat of being lost. The chapters compiled in this volume document important aspects of past and present experiences of elderly Deaf signers across Europe, as well as in Israel and the United States. Issues addressed include (i) historical events and how they were experienced by Deaf people, (ii) issues of identity and independence, (iii) aspects of language change, (iv) experiences of suppression and discrimination. The stories shared by elderly signers reveal intriguing, yet hidden, aspects of Deaf life. On the negative side, these include experiences of the Deaf in Nazi Germany and occupied countries and harsh practices in educational settings, to name a few. On the positive side, there are stories of resilience and vivid memories of school years and social and professional life. In this way, the volume contributes in a significant way to the preservation of the cultural and linguistic heritage of Deaf communities and sheds light on lesser known aspects against an otherwise familiar background. This publication has been made possible within the SIGN-HUB project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
