BIBLIOGRAPHY

Here is an introductory bibliography for parents and teachers of hearing impaired children. Each presents practical information concerning day-to-day experiences, therapies, and coping strategies.

For Parents. . .From Parents!

Parents in Action: A Handbook of Experiences with Their
Hearing-Impaired Children

Grant B. Bitter, Ed.D., Editor

Thirteen parents of hearing-impaired children write frankly of their
day to day experiences, frustrations, hopes, joys, and fears as they
learn to cope with their child's hearing loss and its effect on the
family. Includes ideas and practical suggestions for helping
hearing-impaired child develop language through oral or auditory/oral
methods, training residual hearing, developing independence and a
sense of humor, and understanding adoption. This Handbook is a must
for the libraries of parents, grandparents, teachers, counselors, and
all other specialists concerned with hearing--impaired children.

1978 99 pages Order No. I5672 $6.95

Raising Your Hearing-Impaired Child: A Guide for Parents

Shirley McArthur

A practical and inspiring guidebook that offers much-needed
information and support for parents who discover that their child has
a hearing loss. The author is the mother of two hearing-impaired
children, as well as a teacher of the deaf. Mrs. McArthur gives ready
solutions to the innumerable daily problems involved in educating and
raising a hearing-impaired child. These solutions can be adapted as
appropriate for the indivdual child. Raising Your Hearing-Impaired
Child addresses the primary overall goal of raising hearing-impaired
children to become responsible, independent, and happy adults. 1982
256 pages Order No. 15606 $12.95

Order from Publication Sales Department
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf 3417 Volta Place, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20007

Parents' Guide to Speech and Deafness

Donald R. Calvert, PhD

A new easy-to-use guide to help parents play an active, informed role
in teaching their hearing-impaired children to speak. This layman's
version of the highly respected text Speech and Deafness by Dr. Donald
R. Calvert and Dr. S. Richard Silverman answers the most common
questions that parents should ask.

The guide explains what helps hearing-impaired children speak and
shows how essential the entire family is to the child's success.

80 pages-Softcover

To order write:
A.G. Bell Publications
3417 Volta Place, NW

Washington, DC 20007

Parents and Teachers: Partners in Language Development

Audrey Ann Simmons-Martin, Ed.D.
Karen Glover Rossi, MA

This text outlines the role of the teacher and the very important role
of the parent in developing language in the hearing-impaired child. It
spells out their respective roles in specific strategies presented in
accessible and clear charts. The complex process of language
development is traced from bonding at birth to concept growth in the
classroom.

$25.95

AG Bell Association for the Deaf
3417 Volta Place, N.W.

Washington, DC 20007-2778
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