When Gina Oliva first went to school in 1955, she didn t know that she was different. If the kindergarten teacher played a tune on the piano to signal the next exercise, Oliva didn t react because she couldn t hear the music. So began her journey as a solitary, her term for being the only deaf child in the entire school. Gina felt alone because she couldn t communicate easily with her classmates, but also because none of them had a hearing loss like hers. It wasn t until years later at Gallaudet University that she discovered that she wasn t alone and that her experience was common among...
When Gina Oliva first went to school in 1955, she didn t know that she was different. If the kindergarten teacher played a tune on the piano to sig...
"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...
"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. ...