Rusick, Jessica
Summary: "In this title, readers learn common symptoms and behaviors of deafness and how it affects kids at school and in relationships. Text includes suggestions on how to be a kind and respectful friend to someone who is deaf and appropriate activities kids can enjoy together. A famous person who has overcome the challenges of deafness is highlighted."--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.42 RUSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J616.85 RUSHoover, Colleen
Summary: Maggie meets Jake, a cardiologist with a penchant for tandem skydiving. Getting ready for a post-jump date, Maggie comes across an old list of things she wanted to do "maybe one of these days," and decides what better time than now? She keeps Ridge updated on her adventures, but he can't help but worry, even as Sydney grows more and more suspicious about their friendship. If Sydney is going to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2022
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOEschmann, Reese
Summary: "Twelve-year-old Etta Johnson has Loud Days where she can hear just fine and Quiet Days where sounds come from far away and she gets to retreat into her thoughts. Etta spends most of her time alone, working on her comic book about Invincible Girl, the superhero who takes down super villain Petra Fide. Invincible Girl is brave, daring, and bold--everything Etta wishes she could be. But when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster's Children Publishing Divison 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ESCKaminsky, Ilya
Summary: Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear--they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 KAMSummary: Darius Marder's Academy Award-winning film stars Riz Ahmed in an intense, committed performance as a drummer who loses his hearing and comes to discover deafness not as a disability but as a rich culture and community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SOUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SOUAndrew, Kelly
Summary: After being assigned to her university's prestigious and controversial neo-anthropological studies program, eighteen-year-old deaf student Delaney Meyers-Petrov must learn to channel her ability to slip between worlds--and, along with her capricious TA Colton Price, who seems determined to despise her, must uncover buried institutional secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ANDBraun, Hannah
Summary: "Learn to Read for Kids with Dyslexia is the definitive activity workbook to improve phonemic awareness, dysgraphia, and auditory processing disorder (APD) for kids ages 7-12. For kids with an official dyslexia diagnosis, or kids struggling with dyslexia related symptoms, learning to read can be challenging. Using a targeted approach to skill development, Learn to Read for Kids with Dyslexia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zephyros Press 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Heelan, Jamee Riggio
Summary: Chris, a boy who was born deaf, tells how he uses sign language, hearing aids, and his other senses to communicate with others, how his friends help him, and how, with the help of an interpreter, he can attend public school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.4 HEEAntrobus, Raymond
Summary: The award-winning author of Can Bears Ski? and the illustrator of Here's a Little Poem draw on personal experiences in the story of Little Bear, who learns about his deafness when a visit to an audiologist reveals the truth about a world he sometimes hastrouble understanding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANTSpiotta-DiMare, Loren.
Summary: The rescue and training of Caesar, a deaf puppy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Young Families, Inc. 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.7 SPIDugan, Marcia B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallaudet University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.8 DUGKeller, Helen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Airmont Pub. 1965
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 KELSummary: "Be with me is a tapestry of three stories woven around the themes of love, hope, tragedy and redemption. Although the main characters come from different backgrounds and lead different lives, they are bound by one common desire--to be with their loved one"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zhao Wei Films 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BESummary: Opens the door to a world where sight, sound, and touch magically converge to elevate our everyday sensory experiences. With Evelyn Glennie, Grammy winning percussionist who is also deaf.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2006
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOUSummary: "Includes emotions surrounding hearing loss, where and how to find help, how to map an audiogram, function and selection of hearing aids and why some people reject them. Other topics include cochlear implants, Meniere's disease, tinnitus, aging, listening skills, wireless assistive technology and assistive technology products"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Auricle Ink Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.8 CONChau, Chan
Summary: Jessi recently moved to Stoneybrook and is one of the newest members of The Baby-sitters Club. She's getting ready to start regularly sitting for the BSC's newest charge, Matt Braddock. Matt has been Deaf since birth and uses sign language to communicate, so Jessi has to use it, too. It's a secret language! Soon all the neighborhood kids want to learn how to sign, which keeps the BSC busy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC CHAHoover, Colleen
Summary: "Ridge and Sydney are thrilled to finally be together guilt-free. But Warren and Bridgette's relationship is as tumultuous as ever, and Maggie grapples with her illness. When she comes across an old list of things she wanted to do, Maggie decides to live life to the fullest and accomplish these dreams. Maggie keeps Ridge updated on her adventures, but he can't help but worry, even as Sydney...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOOBecker, Susan Cope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: S.C. Becker 1997
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Place a hold to request this item.Bouton, Katherine
Summary: Traces the author's experiences of hearing loss while evaluating a growing epidemic of hearing impairment in America, drawing on medical and specialist insights to identify possible causes while sharing how hearing loss affects everyday life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.8 BOUDalebout, Susan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Praeger Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.8 DALHolston, Noel
Summary: From a renowned media critic to a man with sudden and full hearing loss, Noel Holston ran the gauntlet of diagnoses, health insurance, and cochlear implant surgery. On a spring night in 2010, Noel Holston, a journalist, songwriter, and storyteller, went to bed with reasonably intact hearing. By dawn, it was gone, thus beginning a long process of hearing-restoration that included misdiagnoses,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOLSTON, NOEL HOLOwen, David
Summary: "Our sense of hearing makes it easy to connect with the world and the people around us. The human system for processing sound is a biological marvel, an intricate assembly of delicate membranes, bones, receptor cells, and neurons. Yet many people take their ears for granted, abusing them with loud restaurants, rock concerts, and Q-tips. And then, eventually, most of us start to go deaf." --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.8 OWESummary: The nation's children are everybody's future, and what happens in those first three years, before school, really, really matters to that future, says child development expert Penelope Leach. In this program, ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer reports on the neurological connections that form in a child's brain during pregnancy and early childhood and the long-term effects of sensory stimulation and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009