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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press
ISBN-10
1563683504
ISBN-13
9781563683503
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57117337
Product Key Features
Book Title
Neither-Nor : a Young Australian's Experience with Deafness
Number of Pages
222 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Cultural Heritage, People with Disabilities, Personal Memoirs
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Book Series
Deaf Lives Ser.
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
11.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-006556
Series Volume Number
5
Dewey Decimal
362.4/2
Table Of Content
Contents 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 Three 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
Synopsis
"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 terms with being neither Deaf nor hearing -- a neither/nor, an in-between -- and a person with a social identity that had yet to be invented." His memoir, "Neither-- Nor: A Young Australian' s Experience with Deafness," recounts this journey. Jacobs excelled in sports and the classroom, but he never lost awareness of how he was seen as different, often in cruel or patronizing ways. His father, a child psychologist, headed a long list of supportive people in his life, including his Uncle Brian, his itinerant teacher of the deaf Mrs. Carey, a gifted art teacher Mrs. Klein, who demanded and received from him first-rate work, a notetaker Rita, and Bella, his first girlfriend. Jacobs eventually attended university, where he graduated with honors. He also entered the Deaf world when he starred on the Deaf Australian World Cup cricket team. However, he never learned sign language, and frequently noted the lack of an adult role model for " neither-- nors" such as himself. Still emotionally adrift in 1998, Jacobs toured Europe, then volunteered to tutor deaf residents at Court Grange College in Devon, England. There, he discovered a darker reality for some deaf individuals -- hearing loss complicated by schizophrenia, Bonnevie-Ullrich Syndrome, and other conditions. After returning to Australia, Jacobs recognized what he hadgleaned from his long journey: " Power comes from within, not without. Sure, deafness makes one prone to be stigmatized. Yet having a disability can act as a stimulus for greater personal growth, richer experiences, and more genuine relationships.", 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 terms with being neither Deaf nor hearing -- a neither/nor, an in-between -- and a person with a social identity that had yet to be invented." His memoir, Neither--Nor: A Young Australian's Experience with Deafness , recounts this journey. Jacobs excelled in sports and the classroom, but he never lost awareness of how he was seen as different, often in cruel or patronizing ways. His father, a child psychologist, headed a long list of supportive people in his life, including his Uncle Brian, his itinerant teacher of the deaf Mrs. Carey, a gifted art teacher Mrs. Klein, who demanded and received from him first-rate work, a notetaker Rita, and Bella, his first girlfriend. Jacobs eventually attended university, where he graduated with honors. He also entered the Deaf world when he starred on the Deaf Australian World Cup cricket team. However, he never learned sign language, and frequently noted the lack of an adult role model for "neither--nors" such as himself. Still emotionally adrift in 1998, Jacobs toured Europe, then volunteered to tutor deaf residents at Court Grange College in Devon, England. There, he discovered a darker reality for some deaf individuals -- hearing loss complicated by schizophrenia, Bonnevie-Ullrich Syndrome, and other conditions. After returning to Australia, Jacobs recognized what he had gleaned from his long journey: "Power comes from within, not without. Sure, deafness makes one prone to be stigmatized. Yet having a disability can act as a stimulus for greater personal growth, richer experiences, and more genuine relationships.", In the fifth Deaf Lives volume, Jacobs tells of searching in Australia and Europe for an identity that has yet to be invented, as being neither deaf nor hearing, but an in-between., In the fifth Deaf Lives volume, Jacobs tells of searching in Australia and Europe for an identity that has yet to be invented, as being neither deaf nor hearing, but an in-between.
LC Classification Number
HV2943.J33A3 2007
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