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Lend Me Your Ear

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This is a readable and startling book. Startling, because it turns our notions of deafness upside down. Just the passages on how total deafness is rare and that deaf can mean many things, is worth the price of the book. There is Deaf -- meaning part of Deaf culture. There is deaf -- meaning a medical definition. There is hard of hearing and there is passing. That is , reading lips well enough to get by in the hearing world. Some folks use all these techniques to survive in the hearing world. I think we sometimes believe that disability is a fixed, immutable experience, but Brueggemann reveals that a hearing impairment is a fluid, mutable human experience.

This book was a great book in understanding people whom are hard of hearing and how they live in the world of deafness. Brenda, wrote this book on her own behalf of being hard of hearing since birth. A great book to understand in the teaching, people that deaf people see and hear things differently then we do. Enjoyed the book, and would recommend this book to anyone.