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The Silent Book: A Deaf Family and the Disappearing Australian-Irish Sign Language: Bernadette T Wallis This book is based on the true story of a deaf family in Victoria, Australia and focuses on the Australian-Irish Sign language that was used by the Catholic Deaf Community but is no longer taught in Schools. Australian Deaf History 2016
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.
[5]: 53 The genre is usually introduced to Deaf children as young adolescents by older peers or family members. [5]: 62 Number stories are similar to ABC stories in that they must be told in numerical order, using the '1' handshape first, then the '2' handshape, etc. They must be constructed using the number handshapes in succession to tell a ...
Blanche Wilkins Williams (December 1, 1876 – March 24, 1936) was an American educator of deaf children. In 1893 she became the first African American woman to graduate from the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf. She was described by a prominent deaf newspaper as "the most accomplished deaf lady of her race in America". [citation needed]
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]
Churnin's first picture book, The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game was published in 2016. [4] Fifteen other children's books by Churnin were published between 2017 and 2024. Churnin's 17th book, A Teddy Bear for Emily―and President Roosevelt, Too will be published on March 6, 2025 [5]
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Benjamin James Bahan is a professor of ASL and Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University [1] and a member of the deaf community. He is an influential figure in American Sign Language literature as a storyteller and writer of deaf culture. He is known for the stories "The Ball Story" and "Birds of a Different Feather".