Articles:
Books:
- A
Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family by Lou Ann Walker.
ISBN: 0060914254. An account of what it means to be the hearing child of
profoundly deaf parents.
- In
This Sign by Joanne Greenberg. ISBN: 0805007229. The story of deaf
couple, their hearing daughter, and their struggles through life.
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Mother Father Deaf: Living Between Sound and Silence by Paul Preston.
ISBN: 0674587480. "Mother father deaf" is the phrase commonly used within
the Deaf community to refer to hearing children of deaf parents. These
children grow up between two cultures, the Hearing and the Deaf. The author
is one of these children, and in this book based on 150 interviews, he takes
us to the place where Deaf and Hearing cultures meet.
- My
Sense of Silence: Memoirs of a Childhood With Deafness by Lennard J.
Davis. ISBN: 0252025334. The author tells what his childhood was like
growing up a hearing child with deaf parents.
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The Silents by Charlotte Abrams. ISBN: 1563680556. The hearing daughter
of deaf parents presents a memoir about growing up in a close-knit,
community-minded Jewish family in Chicago during the Depression and World
War II, a time during which her mother began to go blind.
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