Making Sense in Sign


Authors: Jenny Froude

Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines

Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited

Published Date: 2003

Language: en

Description: Words were not enough for Tom; it was signs that made sense of a world silenced by meningitis. This work is an account by a woman of how her son contracted meningitis and of the deafness that resulted. It offers a discussion of the issues surrounding deafness from a parental viewpoint.