Deaf-Ability--Not Disability: A Guide for the Parents of Hearing Impaired Children

418 Pages·1991·4.36 MB·English

by  Wendy McCracken

Deaf-ability--not Disability : A Guide for
title:
the Parents of Hearing Impaired Children
author: McCracken, Wendy.; Sutherland, Hilary
publisher: Multilingual Matters
isbn10 | asin: 1853590800
print isbn13: 9781853590801
ebook isbn13: 9780585348100
language: English
Parents of deaf children, Child rearing,
Deafness, Deaf children--Family
subject
relationships, Hearing impaired children--
Family relationships.
publication date: 1991
lcc: HQ759.913.M33 1991eb
ddc: 649/.1512
Parents of deaf children, Child rearing,
Deafness, Deaf children--Family
subject:
relationships, Hearing impaired children--
Family relationships.
Page i
Deaf-abilityNot Disability
Page ii
General Interest:
Marriage Across Frontiers
A. BARBARA
The Moving Experience: A Practical Guide to Psychological Survival
G. MELTZER and E. GRANDJEAN
This Won't Change Your Life (But It Might Help!)
ELIZABETH PITMAN
Child Language:
Child Language Disability: Implications in an Educational Setting
KAY MOGFORD and JANE SADLER (eds)
Every Child's Language
(Open Univ. Pack)
The Path to Language: Bilingual Education for Deaf Children
DANIELLE BOUVET
Parents on Dyslexia
S. van der STOEL (ed.)
Raising Children Bilingually: The Pre-School Years
LENORE ARNBERG
Sign and School
JIM KYLE (ed.)
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Deaf-abilityNot Disability
A Guide for the Parents of Hearing Impaired Children
Wendy McCracken and
Hilary Sutherland
With a Foreword by
Her Royal Highness
The Princess of Wales
Page iv
To Jim
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
McCracken, Wendy, 1952-
Deaf-Ability, Not Disability: A Guide for the Parents of Hearing
Impaired Children/Wendy McCracken and Hilary Sutherland.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Parents of Handicapped Children. 2. Child Rearing.
3. Children, Deaf - Family Relationships. 4. Hearing Impaired
Children - Family Relationships.
I. Sutherland, Hilary, 1955- . II. Title.
HO759.913.M33 1991
649.1512 dc20.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British
Library.
ISBN 1-85359-081-9
ISBN 1-85359-080-0 (pbk)
Multilingual Matters Ltd
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Copyright © 1991 Wendy McCracken & Hilary Sutherland.
All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced in any
form or by any means without permission in writing from the
publisher.
Typeset by Wayside Books, Clevedon.
Printed and bound in Great Britain by Billing & Sons Ltd.
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CONTENTS
Foreword vii
Introduction ix
Acknowledgements xi
Apology xii
Part I
1. Diagnosis 3
How the Ear Works; Why Can't My Child Hear?;
Hearing Tests: What Is Measured?: Your Child Is
Deaf But Why?
2. Family Reactions 29
3. Aids to Hearing 68
Reactions to Hearing Aids and Daily Routines;
Understanding Hearing Aids; Radio Aids; Auditory
Training Units; Infra-red Systems; Electromagnetic
Induction Loop; Cochlear Implants
4. Lipreading 68
Problems Arising in a Normal Day; Points to Remember
5. Language Development 78
Development of spoken language; Looking; Copying;
Making sounds; Where do words come into this?
6. Sign Language and Support Systems 89
Some Basic Comments about Sign Language; British
Sign Language; What Does Sign Language Involve?
Sign Language: the Bilingual Option; Opting for Sign
Language Practical Considerations; What Are Manual
Support Systems?