Helping Children Who Are Deaf (2004)
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First edition: March 2004.
Printed in the USA.
ISBN: 978-0-942364-44-6
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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