Talk With Me: Giving the Gift of Language and Emotional Health to the Hearing Impaired Child [Paperback]

Ellyn Atlman (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 222 pages
• Publisher: Alex Graham Bell Assn for Deaf (June 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0882001639
• ISBN-13: 978-0882001630
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,307,130 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Talk With Me!, May 29, 2007

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This review is from: Talk With Me: Giving the Gift of Language and Emotional Health to the Hearing Impaired Child (Paperback)

In the pages that follow you will explore how a baby born with severe hearing impairment can grow steadily into an articulate, intelligent, and emotionally healthy human being. I want to excite you about the prospects for your hearing-mppaired child, as I was once excited by one of the first books I read, entitled The deaf childby Dr. Edith Whetnall and Dr. D. B. Fry. They described the "natural" and "normal" development of speech and language acheived by the hearing-impaired children with whom they worked in England. They demonstrated that this development was very much like the development of language in normal hearing children. From this book I developed the belief that if one hearing-impaired child could do it, then my hearing-impaired child could too!

There is where I began, and where you can choose to begin also. This will be one of the most important ideas you will read in this book. Dr. Whetnall and Dr. Fry offered me as a young, inexperienced mother of a very severely hearing-impaired baby a "posibility" that I innocently treated as a "promise" - not a wish or a dream. I had every confidence, that just as they had effectively helped British hearing-impaired children, so too could I help my daughter.

That is exactly what happened. I did help her acheive the "natural" and "normal" development of speech and language through the use of her residual hearing, her native intelligence, her instinctual desire to speak and communicate, and our shared energy. It was just as Dr. Whetnall had said it would be in a letter she wrote to me shortly before her death. From her invitation to try and my belief in my power to make an impact, I generated an energy from which all Stephanie's growth and progress would follow. This energy grew from a commitment to a concept of potential and an invincable optimism. It was based on the determination to fulfill my expectations, my trust in the success of others, and my faith that it would happen, in spite of the odds.
--- excerpt from book's Introduction