Choices in Deafness: A Parents’ Guide to Communication Options
Choices in Deafness: A Parents’ Guide to Communication Options
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CHOICES IN DEAFNESS, since 1987 the preeminent guide to communication options, is now extensively revised and expanded to provide the complete scope of information parents of children with deafness or hearing loss need. From assessment and diagnosis to medical/audiological treatments, and from the latest types of cochlear implants and procedures to education and technology devices, this new edition presents a balance of research, guidance, and insight from experts and families. Seven new chapt
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Review by listenup@tripod.net for Choices in Deafness: A Parents’ Guide to Communication Options
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This book is invaluable for any parent choosing a communication option for their child. The author takes an unbiased look at the following communication options: Auditory-Verbal, Bilingual-Bicultural, Cued Speech, Oral, and Total Communication. Each option contains an outline of the option, and stories of three or four children who are using this option. The stories are written by the children’s parents which helps give us an insight into how they chose the option that was right for their child. For those children who were covered in the first edition of this book, this second edition includes a “Where I Am Today” written by the now grown children.
Review by T. Yanuck for Choices in Deafness: A Parents’ Guide to Communication Options
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This is a great book!!After our child was diagnosed with deafness, we were overwelmed with so much information, so many decisions to make. This book offers a nonbiased, comprehensive outline of the educational options available for deaf children. I use it as a reference manual and read it three or four times after my son’s diagnosis. We’re four years down the road now and I’m going to read it again. There is a wealth of information here. It is the first book I recommend parents read after finding out their child is deaf.
Review by Bill Loyd for Choices in Deafness: A Parents’ Guide to Communication Options
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As a mom with a one year old newly diagnosed as severely deaf, I found this book very helpful. After going online and learning of all the controversy surrounding deaf issues,it was refreshing to find a book that gave equal time to differing views. This book led me to making the choice that is right for our child and our family. I loved that it gave professional veiwpoints for each language-learning option, as well as the story of a family that chose each of the various options.
Review by Edward Peters for Choices in Deafness: A Parents’ Guide to Communication Options
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Second only to Paul Ogden’s “Silent Garden” (which treats of a broader range of issues than does “Choices”) this is the most balanced and readable book specifically dealing with deaf education and communications options that we (hearing parents of profoundly deaf toddler) have yet found. There is a very good mix of professional articles and actual parental stories, recently supplemented by updates from the children themselves, now mostly grown. This is the only book of its kind that we have seen that provides actual audiograms for most stundets/subjects, something hearing parents MUST have in order to relate the stories in “Choices” to THEIR kids’ situation. (I only wish AIDED audiograms had been consistently included as well, since those are nearly as important as basic audiograms.) I dont suggest tinkering with success, but I do think somewhat more information on the failure rates for given options should have been given, since it is far too easy for us as parents to imagine OUR child as being the succesful student portrayed in each section, thus short-chaging the down-side risks of each option. Also, it might have been nice if a few more stories of deaf people who DIDNT live in Maryland at some point in their life could have been included. That’s hardly a real criticsm, though, and I conclude by this book highly.
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Second only to Paul Ogden’s “The Silent Garden” (which treats a broader range of deafness issues than does “Choices”), this is the most balanced and readable book specifically on deaf education and communication options we (hearing parents of a profoundly deaf toddler) have yet found. There is a very good mix of professional articles and actual parental stories, recently supplemented by up-dates from the children themselves, now mostly grown. This is the only book of its kind we’ve seen that provides actual audiograms for most of the student/subjects, something hearing parents MUST have in order to relate the stories in “Choices” to THEIR child’s situation. (I only wish AIDED audiograms had been consistently included as well, since those are nearly as important as basic audiograms). I don’t suggest tinkering with success, but I do think somewhat more information on failure rates for the given options would have been helpful, since it’s too easy for us as parents to imagine OUR child being the successful student portrayed in each section, thus short-changing the downside risks. Also, it might be nice if a few more stories of deaf people who DIDN’T live in Maryland at some point in their lives could be included. That’s hardly a real criticism, though, and I conclude by recommending the book highly.