Deaf-Blind Reality
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Deaf-Blind Reality

Living the Life

Scott M. Stoffel

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Deaf-Blind Reality

Living the Life

Scott M. Stoffel

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About This Book

Most stories about disabled people are written for the sake of being inspirational. These stories tend to focus on some achievement, such as sports or academics, but rarely do they give a true and complete view of the challenges individuals must deal with on a daily basis. For example: How does a deaf-blind person interact with hearing-sighted people at a family reunion? How does she shop for groceries? What goes through his mind when he enters a classroom full of non-handicapped peers? These aren't questions you are likely to find answers to while reading that incredible tale of success. They are, however, issues that a deaf-blind person wishes others understood. Deaf-Blind Reality: Living the Life explores what life is really like for persons with a combination of vision and hearing loss, and in a few cases, other disabilities as well. Editor Scott M. Stoffel presents extensive interviews with 12 deaf-blind individuals, including himself, who live around the world, from Missouri to New Zealand, Louisiana to South Africa, and Ohio to England. These contributors each describe their families' reactions and the support they received; their experiences in school and entering adulthood; and how they coped with degeneration, ineffective treatments, and rehabilitation. Each discusses their personal education related to careers, relationships, and communication, including those with cochlear implants. Deaf-Blind Reality offers genuine understanding of the unspectacular but altogether daunting challenges of daily life for deaf-blind people.

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Publisher
Gallaudet University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9781563685361
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Contributors
  6. Glossary and Abbreviations
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Family Reaction and Support
  9. 2. Education Part I: Primary and Secondary School Experiences
  10. 3. Transition to Adulthood
  11. 4. Degeneration
  12. 5. Bad Medicine
  13. 6. Rehabilitation
  14. 7. Education Part II: Adult Education
  15. 8. Careers
  16. 9. Daily Life
  17. 10. Adult Relationships
  18. 11. Communication
  19. 12. Cochlear Implants
  20. 13. Coping
  21. Afterthoughts
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APA 6 Citation

[author missing]. (2012). Deaf-Blind Reality ([edition missing]). Gallaudet University Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/2305959/deafblind-reality-pdf (Original work published 2012)

Chicago Citation

[author missing]. (2012) 2012. Deaf-Blind Reality. [Edition missing]. Gallaudet University Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/2305959/deafblind-reality-pdf.

Harvard Citation

[author missing] (2012) Deaf-Blind Reality. [edition missing]. Gallaudet University Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/2305959/deafblind-reality-pdf (Accessed: 25 September 2021).

MLA 7 Citation

[author missing]. Deaf-Blind Reality. [edition missing]. Gallaudet University Press, 2012. Web. 25 Sept. 2021.