deafness

Addy, who has worn hearing aids her entire life, is eager to excel when she enters the sixth grade, but she feels conflicted when she joins the school's running club with her best friend Lucy and finds she is a more gifted runner than her friend.

While still a student, Evelyn Glennie learned that she was going deaf. Rather than abandon her study of music, in which she had shown such talent, she instead turned her focus toward percussion instruments and developed her ability to feel the sound through her body. This documentary follows her as she performs in New York, Germany and Tokyo, sharing her insights into the nature of music and the ways in which we experience it.

"Some people are deaf. What does that mean? Using simple, engaging text and full-color photos, readers learn what deafness is, how it can be caused, and what daily life is like for someone who can't hear"--Publisher.

"Follows the ... journey of Tim Falconer as he tries to overcome tone deafness--and along the way discovers what we're really hearing when we listen to music"--.

Well before Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, Aleck (as his family called him) was a curious boy, interested in how and why he was able to hear the world all around him.

When an illness makes her deaf, fifteen year-old Demi must learn how to navigate a new, silent world.

Helen Keller became deaf and blind after a childhood illness, she grew up to be a renowned author, activist, and speaker. Anne Sullivan helped, her to overcame obstacles and used them to become an advocate for those experiencing hardship. This biography uses Keller's own words, so that readers can better know and understand this woman and leader.

A deaf professor from Gallaudet University addresses the problems and ramifications of deafness.

Documents the high incidence of hereditary deafness that occurred on Martha's Vineyard Island for more than 200 years until the early 1950s. Explains the special sign language that deaf and hearing people created and used regularly. Details daily life on the island and how deafness was not considered a handicap because all people were integral parts of the community.