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Hear: A Four-Letter Word
Softcover with very very good interior condition. The cover is clean, with moderate wear/shelf life, light age-tanning on the edgea of the cover and a small crease on the bottom corner. Pages are clean. Binding is tight. Spine is in excellent condition no creases. We carefully wrap and ship your book within 24 hours of order. 263. first edition. Published Wide Range Press(J-22)
263 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1991
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March 1, 2008
This book was very personal for me as it is the individual that created the successful speech program that was responsible for my success at speech. I really enjoyed this book and was amazed at this one womans drive to change the face of oral edcuation for deaf children. She was a pioneer in advocating for early intervention and hearing aid usage as soon as deafness was discovered. She is my hero.
May 3, 2013
An extremely thought-provoking book. The book is essentially an autobiography with a lot of additional information about the state of testing and education of deaf children.
Ciwa (pronounced Thee-wa) Griffiths met a little deaf girl, and became interested in helping her to speak. She succeeded, and along the way, taught thousands of deaf children to speak, making myriads of friends along the way. She also made myriads of enemies; people who considered her a charlatan. But she persevered, along with her discovery that putting hearing aids on children under 9 months of age caused some of them to become hearing!
Dr. Ciwa Griffiths was my first speech therapist; or at least I went to her clinic. I don't remember her, but my mother told me about taking me to see her. We didn't live nearby, so my mother did a lot of driving to take me to see Dr. Griffiths.
Dr. Griffiths has a lot of strong thoughts and feelings about Deaf Culture and Total Communication (TC), not all of which I agree with (I don't have quite a negative outlook on these things as she did), but her experiences and thoughts definitely made me think hard. I'll continue my exploration of how I think and feel about these topics for some time to come after reading this book.
The book could have used an editor and proofreader, or at least, a better editor and proofreader than she had in 1991 when the book was published. There were times when I felt she digressed into a non-related topic, and other times when I thought she needed to delve into the topic with more detail. Thus the 3 rating. However, it still kept my attention and kept me wanting to see what she had to say.
Ciwa (pronounced Thee-wa) Griffiths met a little deaf girl, and became interested in helping her to speak. She succeeded, and along the way, taught thousands of deaf children to speak, making myriads of friends along the way. She also made myriads of enemies; people who considered her a charlatan. But she persevered, along with her discovery that putting hearing aids on children under 9 months of age caused some of them to become hearing!
Dr. Ciwa Griffiths was my first speech therapist; or at least I went to her clinic. I don't remember her, but my mother told me about taking me to see her. We didn't live nearby, so my mother did a lot of driving to take me to see Dr. Griffiths.
Dr. Griffiths has a lot of strong thoughts and feelings about Deaf Culture and Total Communication (TC), not all of which I agree with (I don't have quite a negative outlook on these things as she did), but her experiences and thoughts definitely made me think hard. I'll continue my exploration of how I think and feel about these topics for some time to come after reading this book.
The book could have used an editor and proofreader, or at least, a better editor and proofreader than she had in 1991 when the book was published. There were times when I felt she digressed into a non-related topic, and other times when I thought she needed to delve into the topic with more detail. Thus the 3 rating. However, it still kept my attention and kept me wanting to see what she had to say.
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