what every parent should know about sign communication
Stewart, David Alan
1998
A guide for parents of deaf children that discusses how parents can help their children learn to communicate using sign language, what sign language options are available, what their child's educational rights are, and other related topics.
Describes the conditions and varying degrees of hearing loss and deafness, and discusses methods by which the hearing-impaired can communicate with others.
A deaf child tells how he uses sign language, hearing aids, and his other senses to communicate, how his friends help him, and how he goes to public school with an interpreter.
Discusses the problems, frustrations, and anxieties encountered by the parents of a deaf child as they attempt to communicate with her and teach her to speak.