The sound of silence : growing up hearing with deaf parents /

Uhlberg, Myron,

The sound of silence : growing up hearing with deaf parents / Myron Uhlberg. - Hardcover edition. - 228 pages ; 21 cm

"This work is based on Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love, originally published by Bantam Books, a division of Random House, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House, in 2009"--Title page verso.

"Myron Uhlberg was born the hearing son of deaf parents at a time when American Sign Language was not well established and deaf people were often dismissed as being unintelligent. In this young reader adaptation of his acclaimed memoir, Hands of My Father, Uhlberg recalls the daily difficulties and hidden joys of growing up as the intermediary between his parents' silent world and the world of the hearing."--Amazon.

Grade 4-6, ages 9-11.

9780807531464 0807531464

2018278295

GBC0I6425 bnb

019663111 Uk


Uhlberg, Myron--Juvenile literature.


Children of deaf parents--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Deaf parents--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Deaf--Family relationships--United States--Case studies--Juvenile literature.


Autobiographies.

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