A new book about "overcoming hearing loss" hits store shelves today (May 1). Hear Your Life offers both inspirational stories and answer to common questions. Melissa Rodriguez explains her goals in writing the book in the video below.
Kambri Crews shares her story as a CODA in Burn Down the Ground. Readers will find out why her father is now serving a 20 year prison sentence for a violent attack, why her mother endured years of abuse, and how Crews got from rural Texas to New York City and now runs her own PR and production company. Find out more here.
Joseph Valente talks about his experiences as a deaf kid wanting to become a super hero in the video below. His talk is titled Hearing the Unheard and was shot at a TEDx program at Penn State last month. He's Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education. Valente is author of d/Deaf and d/Dumb: A Portrait of a Deaf Kid as a Young Superhero. There is captioning.
If you want to understand art through Italian sign language, there's a dictionary that can help. The Dictionary of Contemporary Art in Italian Sign Language was edited by the Education Department of the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art and the Turin Institute of the Deaf. It contains 80 new signs to guide the hearing-impaired through the contemporary art world. Each sign is explained with a written summary and illustrative work of art. There's more information here.
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