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Breaking the Sound Barriers: 9 Deaf Success Stories: Julie Postance Nine true stories: five parents of deaf children and four children from deaf adults and the variety of paths they took in life. The stories include different communication choices including speech, Auslan and bilingual upbringings. Biographies 2009 St. Nacho's (St. Nacho's #1)
El Deafo is a Junior Library Guild book. [4] The Horn Book Magazine, [5] Kirkus Reviews, [6] the Los Angeles Public Library, [4] Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal [4] named it one of the best books of 2014. It was also a New York Times Notable Children's Book. [4]
At least three picture books for children have been published: Silent Star: The Story of Deaf Major Leaguer William Hoy by Bill Wise (2012), The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game Nancy Churnin (2016)., [13] and The Little-Known Heroes: William 'Dummy' Hoy by Kaushay and Spencer Ford (2021). [14]
Deaf Like Me is a biographical book about a family who discovers their daughter, Lynn, is deaf, and deals with a language barrier. It was written by Thomas and James Spradley, Lynn's father and uncle, and originally published in 1979. It begins in November 1964, before Lynn was born, and ends in August 1975, when she was ten.
The project eventually evolved into a graphic novel where children who were deaf could see themselves positively represented in a book. Bell uses the imagery of everyone illustrated as rabbits as a visual metaphor. When she was growing up, she felt like she was the only "rabbit" whose ears didn't work, in doing so she shows being deaf as a power.
The book also focuses to the topics of education of deaf children, how deaf people assimilated into wider society, the natural development of ASL, the pros and cons of technology for deaf individuals, what can be learned from deaf societies in other countries, and what the deaf world holds in the future. [7]