Follow along as Chris tells the story of how he learned to communicate without hearing.

This comprehensive text is intended for the training of professionals working with babies and young children who have hearing loss. It provides a framework for the skills and knowledge necessary in promoting spoken language development in young deaf or hard of hearing children whose parents have chosen to have them learn to listen and talk. Children with Hearing Loss includes current information about hearing, listening, spoken language development, and intervention for young children with hearing loss. Scholarly, practical and very readable, it includes numerous illustrations, charts, and graphs to illuminate key ideas.

Choices in Deafness: a Parents' Guide to Communication Options, 2nd Edition. Sue Schwartz, Editor. $30.95

An unbiased and thorough guide to deaf education, providing an overview of the different choice faces families today:

• Auditory-Verbal Approach
• Bilingual-Bicultural Approach
• Cued Speech
• Oral Approach
• Total Communication

Deaf-Blind Infants and Children: a Developmental Guide. J.M. McInnes & J.A. Treffry, $29.95

This is a comprehensive reference guide for teachers, parents, and paraprofessionals working or living with children who are both deaf and blind. It provides day-to-day guidance and suggestions about techniques and methods for assessing children with multi-sensory deprivation, and for devising programs to help them cope.

Deaf Cognition: Foundations and Outcomes. Edited by Marc Marschark & Peter Hauser, $61.95

Deaf Cognition examines the cognitive underpinnings of deaf individuals' learning. It contributes to the science of learning by describing and testing theories that might either over or underestimate the role that audition or vision plays in learning and memory, and by shedding light on multiple pathways for learning. International experts in cognitive psychology, brain sciences, cognitive development, and deaf children offer a unique, integrative examination of cognition and learning, with discussions on their implications for deaf education. Identifying similarities and differences among these domains provides new insights into potential methods for enhancing achievement in this traditionally under-performing population.

Educating Deaf Students: From Research to Practice. Marc Marschak, Harry Lang & John Albertini, $26.95

By evaluating what we know, what we do not know, and what we thought we knew about learning among deaf children, the authors provide parents, teachers, and administrators valuable new insights into educating deaf students and others with special needs.

El Deafo. Cece Bel, $13.95

Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles her hearing loss at a young age and her subsequent experiences with the Phonic Ear, a very powerful — and very awkward — hearing aid.

The Phonic Ear gives Cece the ability to hear — sometimes things she shouldn’t — but also isolates her from her classmates. She really just wants to fit in and find a true friend, someone who appreciates her as she is. After some trouble, she is finally able to harness the power of the Phonic Ear and become “El Deafo, Listener for All.” And more importantly, declare a place for herself in the world and find the friend she’s longed for.

Elana's Ears or How I Became the Best Big Sister in the World. Gloria Roth Lowell, $11.95 Ages 3-8

Lacey is the family dog. One day, her life of luxury is disrupted when a new baby comes home. When the family realizes that this baby can't hear, her "sister" Lacey, the dog, is there to help protect her and become her hearing ear dog.

Hands of My Father: a Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents and the Language of Love. Myron Uhlberg, $25.95

By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg’s memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents—and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it.

From the beaches of Coney Island to Ebbets Field, where he watches his father’s hero Jackie Robinson play ball, from the branch library above the local Chinese restaurant where the odor of chow mein rose from the pages of the books he devoured to the hospital ward where he visits his polio-afflicted friend, this is a memoir filled with stories about growing up not just as the child of two deaf people but as a book-loving, mischief-making, tree-climbing kid during the remarkably eventful period that spanned the Depression, the War, and the early fifties.

I Am Deaf. Jennifer Moore-Mallinos, illustrated by Marta Fàbrega, $8.99

Lana is 10 years old and she is deaf. In this story, she describes what it’s like to be deaf and she talks about some of the things she uses to help her learn at school and communicate with her teachers and friends.

I Can Hear You Whisper: an Intimate Journey through the Science of Sound and Language. Lydia Denworth, $31.00

An investigation into the science of hearing, child language acquisition, neuroplasticity, brain development, and Deaf culture. 

Lydia Denworth’s third son, Alex, was nearly two when he was identified with significant hearing loss that was likely to get worse. Her sweet boy with the big brown eyes had probably never heard her lullabies. In her drive to understand the choices — starting with the angry debate between supporters of American Sign Language and the controversial but revolutionary cochlear implant — Denworth soon found that every decision carried weighty scientific, social and even political implications.  As she grappled with the complex collisions between the emerging field of brain plasticity, the possibilities of modern technology, and the changing culture of the Deaf community, she gained a new appreciation of the exquisite relationship between sound, language and learning. It became clear that Alex’s ears — and indeed everyone’s — were just the beginning.

An acclaimed science journalist as well as a mother, Denworth interviewed the world’s experts on language development, inventors of ground-breaking technology, Deaf leaders, and neuroscientists at the frontiers of research.  Weaving together tales from the centuries-long quest to develop the cochlear implant and simultaneous leaps in neuroscientific knowledge against a tumultuous backdrop of identity politics, I CAN HEAR YOU WHISPER shows how sound sculpts our children’s brains and the life changing consequences of that delicate process. 

I Have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf. Jeanne Whitehouse Peterson, $9.25

For children ages 4-8, this lovely picture book tells the story of a very special sister who can say more with her eyes, and body language than most people can with words. A great book for explaining deafness to young children.

If a Tree Falls: a Family Quest to Hear and Be Heard. Jennifer Rosner, $19.50

When her daughters are born deaf, Jennifer Rosner discovers a hidden history of deafness in her family, going back generations to the Jewish enclaves of Eastern Europe. Rosner shares her journey into the modern world of deafness decisions to be made about hearing aids, cochlear implants and sign language. It is at heart a story about whether she — a mother with perfect hearing — will hear her children.

Kid-Friendly Parenting with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children: a Treasury of Fun Activities Toward Better Behavior. Daria Medwid & Denise Chapman Weston, $39.95

This practical guide offers step-by-step ideas and activities to help parents help their children to enhance communication, develop problem-solving skills, manage behavior and improve social skills. For parents of children 3-12 years, this is a positive parenting manual that is a great resource for deaf and hard of hearing families.

Let’s Hear It for Almigal. Wendy Kupfer & Tammie Lyon, $18.95

Meet Almigal, a spunky little girl with a BIG personality who’s determined to hear “every single sound in the whole entire universe!” Most of all, Almigal wants to hear her Mommy and Daddy whisper “We love you Almigal” when they tuck her in at night.

Almigal’s spirit and her cotton-candy pink cochlear implants will have everyone shouting “Let’s hear it for Almigal!”

Follow Moses through a typical school day, a public school for the deaf and hard of hearing. Moses and his friends have lots to do and say and they do it with sign language. A great introduction to deafness for school-age children.

Megan and her school friends have been making big plans for her birthday party. Then a new girl, Alexis, joins their class. Alexis is smart, pretty, and rules the soccer games on the playground, but she resists making new friends and refuses to come to Megan’s party. While the others think the new girl may just be shy, Megan fears that Alexis doesn’t like her because she is deaf — because she’s not perfect. When Megan discovers that Alexis’ little brother Justin has autism, she realizes that Alexis is embarrassed by him and afraid of what others will think.

The Parenting Journey: Raising Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children. Karen Putz, $14.50

Karen Putz grew up hard of hearing, and became deaf as a teen. When her three children started losing their hearing one-by-one, she figured she had all the answers. Instead, she discovered it was a whole other ballgame to navigate life as a parent raising deaf and hard of hearing children.

Practical Guide to Quality Interaction with Children Who Have a Hearing Loss. Morag Clark, $42.95

It is very possible for children with a hearing loss to achieve and develop a fluent and intelligible spoken language when their residual hearing is applied to the fullest extent in an interactive language learning environment. Based on twenty five years of advisory and hands-on research and experience across fourteen countries in five continents, this book is a practical guide for those seeking to lead children with hearing impairment to fluent intelligible spoken language by engaging in quality interaction at the language learning stage.

Raising and Educating a Deaf Child: a Comprehensive Guide to the Choices, Controversies and Decisions Faced by Parents and Educators, 2nd Edition. Marc Marschark, $19.95

Raising and Educating a Deaf Child is not a how-to book or one with all the "right" answers for raising a deaf child; rather, it is a guide through the conflicting suggestions and programs for raising deaf children, as well as the likely implications of taking one direction or the other.

A Screaming Kind of Day. Rachna Gilmore, Illustrated by Gordon Sauvé, $9.95

Scully, a young hard-of-hearing girl wants to play outside in the rain, away from her brother Leo and her busy mother. But things turn out differently than everyone expects, and Scully has to find a way to make peace after an angry day indoors.

Some Kids Are Deaf. Lola Schaefer, $7.95 (Preschool to Grade 2)

Text and photographs describe kids who are deaf, the ways they communicate, and some of their everyday activities.

Song Without Words: Discovering My Deafness Halfway through Life. Gerald Shea, $29.00

An intimate and original view into the hidden world of deafness by an international lawyer who survived Andover, Yale, Columbia Law School and partnership in a prestigious New York law despite severe hearing loss not diagnosed until he was 34.

Speech Development Guide for Children with Hearing Loss. Frederick Berg, $65.95

This 160 page guide is a handy resource for clinicians. Its contents include diagrams and descriptions, which blend pictures, words and sentences together; worksheets; lesson plans; sensory cues and aids for shaping speech; syllable drills; progress and final report forms; guidelines for parents; and a list of suggested reading to follow up on related subjects. This is a time-proven curriculum, which has resulted in a high rate of speech improvement in children with hearing loss.

Splish Splat. Alexis Domney, illustrated by Alice Crawford, $15.95

Colin is tired of the ugly yellow walls in his room. So his mother hires two painters to transform his bedroom into a beautiful blue. The painters, Molly and Heather, are Deaf and use American Sign Language — and their animated ASL conversation has a surprising effect on Colin's room!

Talking Hands. Margalit Fox, $17.50

In a remote village in the Middle East, where everyone uses sign language, scientists are discovering the essential ingredients of all human language and deepening our understanding of cognitive development.

Jacob's life is filled with friends, school, family, sports and pets — and he has a profound hearing loss. Through his story, readers learn about sign language, interpreters, hearing aids and speech therapy for kids with hearing impairments.

Turning the Tide: Making Life Better for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Schoolchildren. Gina Oliva & Linda Risser Lytle, $35.50

Both Gina Oliva and Linda Risser Lytle know what it is like to be the only deaf student in a mainstream school. Though they became successful educators, they recognize the need to research the same isolation experienced by other deaf and hard of hearing persons. TURNING THE TIDE presents a qualitative study of deaf and hard of hearing students who attended mainstream schools. The authors conducted three focus groups in different regions in the country, enlisting six to eight participants with diverse backgrounds for each session. They also gathered information from 113 online respondents who answered the same questions used in the focus groups.

The respondents discussed many issues, including the difficulties of finding friends and social access, the struggle to establish an identity, the challenges of K-12 interpreting and class placement, and the vast potential of summer and weekend programs for deaf students. Their empowering stories clearly demonstrate that no deaf or hard of hearing student should be educated alone. The authors also elicited comments on other changes that parents, advocates, and other allies could work toward to improve further the educational environment of deaf children.

The Young Deaf or Hard of Hearing Child: a Family Centered Approach to Early Education. Barbara Bodner-Johnson & Marilyn Sass-Lehrer, $42.95

With recent advances in technology and a stronger emphasis on infant screening, deaf and hard of hearing children are being identified at an increasingly early age — expanding the need for knowledge about early intervention and education for these young children and their families. This scholarly text will help early interventionists, education professionals, speech-language pathologists, and students navigate complex issues. Expert contributors equip readers with the solid research, key concepts, and current developments they'll need to know about as they establish partnerships with families and their deaf and hard of hearing children. 

Your Child’s Hearing Loss: a Guide for Parents, 2nd Edition. Debby Waldman & Jackson Roush, $26.95

This comprehensive book offers parents critical information on everything from technical information to practical and emotional support including information on advocating for your child's welfare in educational, social and public.