"Thirty-seven years ago, I vowed to write a truthful book about raising a deaf child". Rebecca Willman Gernon followed through on her promise with her deaf daughter Amy Willman in this extraordinary new narrative. Many stories have been told about a...

Now, Jack R. Gannon's original groundbreaking volume on Deaf history and culture is available once again. In "Deaf Heritage: A Narrative History of Deaf America", Gannon brought together for the first time the story of the Deaf experience in America...

In his first memoir, Madan Vasishta described being a deaf boy in his homeland India, where "deaf" meant someone who is not human. After rising from herding cattle to being a respected photographer in Delhi, his first memoir concluded with his accept...

Hard of hearing since early childhood, John Christiansen spent the first 30 years of his life trying to fit in to a hearing world that did little to accommodate his communication needs. Although he excelled in academics, Christiansen found social sit...

The only child of deaf Puerto Rican immigrants, Andres Torres grew up in New York City in a large, extended family that included several deaf aunts and uncles. In "Signing in Puerto Rican: A Hearing Son and His Deaf Family", he opens a window into th...

Personal narratives are one way people code their experiences and convey them to others. Given that speakers can simultaneously express information and define a social situation, analyzing how and why people structure the telling of personal narrativ...

"Deaf Lives in Contrast: Two Women's Stories" might seem to bring together polar opposites in the broad range of deaf experience. Yet, as these narratives unfold, the reader will recognize that common threads run through them despite their different...

Elizabeth Thompson's hearing loss was detected when she was in elementary school, and her hearing continued to deteriorate until she became completely deaf. Like many other hard of hearing and late-deafened individuals, her hearing loss complicated t...

In her landmark book "Inner Lives of Deaf Children: Interviews and Analysis", Martha A. Sheridan explored the lifeworlds: the individual and collective elements and realities that are present within the participants' existential experiences, their re...

Robert F. Panara lost his hearing from spinal meningitis in 1931 at the age of ten. However, he could read and write, and with his friends' help, Bob (as he was known), made it through high school. His new solitude created a new passion – reading, re...