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Teach Me to Love Myself: Memoir of a Pioneering Deaf Therapist
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| Lieferstatus: |
 i.d.R. innert 7-14 Tagen versandfertig |
| Veröffentlichung: |
Oktober 2008
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| Genre: |
Soziologie |
| ISBN: |
9781935052081 |
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EAN-Code:
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9781935052081 |
| Verlag: |
White River Press |
| Einband: |
Kartoniert |
| Sprache: |
English
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| Dimensionen: |
H 216 mm / B 140 mm / D 7 mm |
| Gewicht: |
172 gr |
| Seiten: |
128 |
| Zus. Info: |
Paperback |
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| Inhalt: |
| Holly Elliott was familiar with forging new paths. As she describes in her memoir, Teach Me to Love Myself, she was probably the first professionally trained deaf counselor-therapist in the United States. In her initial position as intern and then staff member at the University of California Center on Deafness, she became an advocate of total communication-a combination of sign language, lip-reading and oral competency that was a new horizon for rehabilitation therapy for the deaf. She was one of the first individuals with inner-ear nerve degeneration to receive a prototype cochlear implant and, several years later, one of the first to have an implant upgraded. Finally, in a more general sense of pathbreaking, she made a courageous career shift at mid-life. After twenty-five years of marriage and child-rearing, she accepted her deafness and embarked on a retraining that eventually led to a distinguished professional career.Holly Elliott was an unusual role model for women of her time, and still speaks to our twenty-first-century experience. |
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