 | Literacy and Your Deaf Child: What Every Parent Should Know by David A. Stewart
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $0.84 Literacy is on the mind of every parent of a deaf child.
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 | Educating Deaf Students: From Research to Practice by Marc Marschark
Buy used from: $8.08 As education often begins early for deaf children (as young as one year of age), parents cannot begin thinking about this too soon.
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 | Psychological Development of Deaf Children by Marc Marschark
Buy new: $31.50 / Used from: $24.50 Child psychology generally doesn't address hearing impairment: this does.
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 | Ben's Story: A Deaf Child's Right to Sign by Lorraine Fletcher
Buy used from: $0.37 Please read this.
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 | The Young Deaf or Hard of Hearing Child: A Family-Centered Approach to Early Education
Buy new: $27.74 / Used from: $19.87 I haven't read this, but knowing it's from Gallaudet gives me confidence in its content.
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 | Choices in Deafness: A Parents' Guide to Communication Options
Buy used from: $0.01 This will give you the positive points on many communication options, although you should realize that each author has their bias. Anything can be made to seem excellent.
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 | Deaf Like Me by Thomas S. Spradley
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $2.50 A deaf child's early life, from a parent's perspective. I highly recommend this as you think about the kind of communication you want to have with your child.
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 | Moses Goes to School by Isaac Millman
Buy new: $12.00 / Used from: $5.92 Your child will be more interested in reading if the protagonist is just like your child. The "Moses" books are great.
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 | The American Sign Language Handshape Dictionary by Richard A. Tennant
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $26.70 There are very few decent ASL dictionaries, but this is a good one.
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| Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture by Carol A. Padden
Buy used from: $1.16 Short and easy to read, this is a good primer on Deaf culture. It will help you see the world through your child's eyes.
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 | Rethinking the Education of Deaf Students: Theory and Practice from a Teacher's Perspective by Sue Livingston
Buy new: $32.50 / Used from: $10.84 This will give you the perfect perspective on deaf education: that of an educator of deaf children. She's been there and has excellent advice and techniques.
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 | Alone in the Mainstream: A Deaf Woman Remembers Public School (Deaf Lives Series, Vol. 1) by Gina A. Oliva
Buy new: $21.86 / Used from: $15.00 Here is a deaf student's perspective on her educational experience. Will your child feel similarly?
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