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Helping Children Who Are Deaf


Family and community support for children who do not hear well

By Sandy Niemann, Devorah Greenstein, and Darlena David

Illustrated by Heidi Broner

The Hesperian Health Guides

Berkeley, California, USA

Copyright © 2004, 2014 by The Hesperian Health Guides. All rights reserved.

First edition: March 2004. Update: December 2014

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 First edition: March 2004.
Updated English edition: December 2014.
ISBN: 0-942364-44-9

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Niemann, Sandy.

Helping children who are deaf: family and community support for children who do not hear well/ by Sandy Niemann, Devorah Greenstein, and Darlena David ; illustrated by Heidi Broner.— 1st ed.

p. cm. — (Early assistance series for children with disabilities)
Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 0-942364-44-9 (pbk.)

1. Deaf children—means of communication. 2. Deaf children—Family relationships. 3. Deaf children—Services for. 4. Child development. I. Greenstein Devorah, 1944- II.
David, Darlena. III. Title. IV. Series.

HV2391.N54 2004
362.4’25’083—dc22

Cover photograph:

by Devorah Greenstein, of a deaf boy and his father in Haiti.
The boy is using a sign he made up to describe
the bright light from a camera’s flash.

Cover art: anonymous indigenous design, Panama.

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