Neither-nor : a young Australian's experience with deafness /

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The Fifth Volume in the Deaf Lives Series. Born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1974, Paul Jacobs lost his mother when he was three months old. When he was five, he lost most of his hearing. These two defining events formed the core of his being. He spent the first two decades of his life coming to term...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jacobs, Paul Gordon, 1974-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, ©2007.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Deaf lives.
Subjects:
Jacobs, Paul Gordon, > 1974-
Deaf > Australia > Biography.
Hearing impaired > Australia > Biography.
Personnes sourdes > Australie > Biographies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > People with Disabilities.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
Deaf.
Hearing impaired.
Australia.
Autobiography
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue: She Wasn't Meant to Die
  • My Life Wasn't Supposed to Begin This Way
  • The Wicked Stepmother
  • Handicapped?
  • The Mentor
  • They Don't See Me as Deaf
  • Beyond the Divide
  • The Invisible Disability
  • The Garden of the Dead
  • A Date at "Macca's"
  • The Ganga Man
  • A Call to Adventure
  • The Deaf World
  • Michaela
  • The Language That Has No Name
  • Pookie and Snoogums
  • Guilt?
  • Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oi, Oi, Oi!
  • A Rip
  • An Emotional Bonsai
  • A Herald of Change
  • Whatever Happens
  • Florentine Acquaintances
  • Candles in St. Mark's Cathedral
  • England
  • Asylum
  • The Voices of the Damned
  • Back to School
  • You're Not Here to Kill Me, Are You?
  • Getting Out of There
  • Life in the Sane World
  • Home Again
  • Afterword.

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