Manual for parents and teachers: "The process of understanding and being understood"
This is a Guide for Parents of Youths and Adolescents with Auditory Disabilities (Guía para padres de jóvenes y adolescentes con limitaciones auditivas, Ediciones Silzu, 1999) written by Dora Kweller. It uses plain language and interprets the feelings of and surrounding deafness in early years of life. It reaches the core of the human experience as lived by parents of children who are deaf, from fears and anxiety before and after diagnostic up to the projected hopes toward the future. It is a desire to break with non-communication, so often found, within families with children who are deaf.
The book includes testimonies from both parents and children. The presentation fosters dialogue, deep reflection, and questioning. It moves along the stages of infant, childhood, adolescence and concludes with adult life. This evolution is unique, not just for every each individual child but for each individual parent, because for each the expectations of a cure, guilt feelings, shame of a world within a world, the doubts regarding the different rehabilitation and educational methods, the challenges posed by integration... all are painful yet marvelously different.
Some of the chapter titles are:
- What is hearing?
- The paths to rehabilitation, parents' testimonies.
- Sons and daughters need time
- Theater games.
- Thought and language, a testimony from a deaf adolescent young girl.
Sold in Argentina: Librerías Galerna, Cúspide, Ateneo y Yenny (Delivery within and outside the country)
Contact: Lic. Dora Kweller: (dorakweller@sinectis.com.ar)
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