The first physically handicapped woman to win the Miss America Pageant tells the story of her deafness, love of ballet, education, and challenge to fulfill her God-given potential.
Presents a story about Abby, a fifth-grade girl who is deaf, and the disappointment she feels when her entire class is invited to a party except for her; and provides information about deafness, discussing how people hear, the causes of hearing loss, and the challenges it poses.
The life story of Helen Keller, who was blind and deaf, but was able to find her way out of a world of darkness and silence to become a best-selling author, popular lecturer, political activist, and renowned humanitarian.
"Mika, heartbroken over his breakup with his ex-girlfriend, meets Leah. He is instantly drawn to her but learns there is something different about Leah--she is deaf. Mika learns sign language so he can communicate with her, but discovers the world of deaf culture is much different from his own. Soon, Mika and Leah find that extraordinary love overcomes all obstacles"--Provided by publisher.
"Inside Deaf Culture relates deaf people's search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self-description as a flourishing culture. Padden and Humphries show how the nineteenth-century schools for the deaf, with their denigration of sign language and their insistence on oralist teaching, shaped the lives of deaf people for generations to come. They describe how deaf culture and art thrived in mid-twentieth century deaf clubs and deaf theatre, and profile controversial contemporary technologies." Cf. Publisher's description.
Presents a chronology of the life and works of Helen Keller where she describes the challenges of being both deaf and blind and the many obstacles she had to overcome, and contains background information, historical timeline, explanatory and textual notes, and critical essays.
Contains photographs that illustrate over three hundred words in American Sign Language, grouped in categories such as money, family, animals, school, party, and others, and includes the alphabet and numbers.
The life of the woman who graduated from college with honors and traveled around the world on behalf of the physically handicapped even though she had been blind and deaf since early childhood.
