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Discovering My Deafness Halfway Through Life
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Current format, Book, 2013, , No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsAt age 34, Gerald Shea discovered that he had been deaf since childhood despite somehow graduating from Andover, Yale, and Columbia Law School, and maintaining a prestigious international legal career. Shea's witty and candid memoir of how he compensated - through sheer determination and an amazing ability to translate the melody of vowels - brings fascinating new insight into the nature and significance of language, the meaning of deafness, the fierce controversy between advocates of signing versus those who favour oral education.
At age 34, Gerald Shea discovered that he had been deaf since childhood despite somehow graduating from Andover, Yale, and Columbia Law School, and maintaining a prestigious international legal career. Shea's witty and candid memoir of how he compensated - through sheer determination and an amazing ability to translate the melody of vowels - brings fascinating new insight into the nature and significance of language, the meaning of deafness, the fierce controversy between advocates of signing versus those who favour oral education.
At age 34, Gerald Shea discovered that he had been deaf since childhood despite somehow graduating from Andover, Yale, and Columbia Law School, and maintaining a prestigious international legal career. Shea's witty and candid memoir of how he compensated - through sheer determination and an amazing ability to translate the melody of vowels - brings fascinating new insight into the nature and significance of language, the meaning of deafness, the fierce controversy between advocates of signing versus those who favour oral education.
At age 34, Gerald Shea discovered that he had been deaf since childhood despite somehow graduating from Andover, Yale, and Columbia Law School, and maintaining a prestigious international legal career. Shea's witty and candid memoir of how he compensated - through sheer determination and an amazing ability to translate the melody of vowels - brings fascinating new insight into the nature and significance of language, the meaning of deafness, the fierce controversy between advocates of signing versus those who favour oral education.
At age 34, Gerald Shea discovered that he had been deaf since childhood despite somehow graduating from Andover, Yale, and Columbia Law School, and maintaining a prestigious international legal career. Shea's witty and candid memoir of how he compensated - through sheer determination and an amazing ability to translate the melody of vowels - brings fascinating new insight into the nature and significance of language, the meaning of deafness, the fierce controversy between advocates of signing versus those who favour oral education.
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- Boston, Mass. : Da Capo Press, c2013.
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