 |
View Our Catalog | Coming to My Senses
From ProtoView (formerly Reference & Research Book News) This memoir details one woman�s journey from silence into sound. Mostly deaf since six years old from complications with mumps, Blatchford decides to receive a cochlear implant at age sixty-seven. Having lived a lifetime functioning with speech reading, oral communication (instead of American Sign Language), and hearing aids, the author recounts her fear of losing the last of her hearing to �cosmic deafness� and her decision to have the surgery. The author recounts things she longed to hear, undergoing surgery, and the experience after the implant, which was accompanied by many stages: a brief period of being �brain deaf� followed by a period of only hearing a �soup of sound,� and finally hearing sentences, her own voice, and her grandchildren. The author also includes advice to those considering a cochlear implant. Claire H. Blatchford, now retired, taught writing and art to deaf children at the Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech in Northampton, MA, and was also a writer for their department of Mainstream Services. Print Edition: ISBN 978-1-56368-615-3, 5� x 8� paperback, 168 pages, 1 figure, 21 photographs, appendix $19.95t E-Book: ISBN 978-1-56368-616-0 $19.95
To order by mail, print our Order Form or call:
TEL 1-800-621-2736; (773) 568-1550 8 am - 5 pm CST |
