Making Sense in Sign

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.

This book is a letter of love and faith from a woman whose son's deafness at first overwhelmed then inspired her. It is a sensitive account of the ramifications of deafness for her son and his success in coping with it.

• Introduction Acknowledgements1 The Time of Crisis2 Deafness may Result 3 Take My Hands and Let Them Move4 Channels of Communication 5 Good Times – Bad Times6 Coping and Caring7 Growing Up 8 Sound or Silence? 9 Staying Strong 10 The Big Adventure 11 Language for Life 12 Borneo and Beyond 13 What is Deaf?14 Paths to Understanding Appendix 1: A Letter to a Deaf Son ‘Yellow is a Lovely Word to See’ Appendix 2: A Second Letter to a Deaf SonAppendix 3: Some Useful AddressesAppendix 4: GlossaryReferences Index