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Author_Jenny Froude
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cochlear implant
communication
deaf children
deaf families
deafness
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language
meningitis
sign language
Product details
- ISBN 9781853596285
- Weight: 271g
- Dimensions: 150 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 17 Apr 2003
- Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Language which develops ‘against all the odds’ is very precious. Words were not enough for Tom; it was signs that made sense of a world silenced by meningitis. Confidence came via joyful and positive steps to communication from babyhood; a brush with epilepsy, a cochlear implant in his teens and life as an independent young adult followed.
Jenny Froude was a journalist on Woman’s Weekly before retiring to have a longed-for family. New communication skills were needed when the youngest was deafened by meningitis at 5 months. The years that followed were a steep but lovely learning curve! She studied Signed English and worked as an SSA in a Senior Hearing Impairment Unit for four years.
