Making Sense in Sign

Jenny Froude was a journalist on Woman’s Weekly before retiring to have a longed-for family. New communication skills were needed when the youngest was deafened by meningitis at 5 months. The years that followed were a steep but lovely learning curve! She studied Signed English and worked as an SSA in a Senior Hearing Impairment Unit for four years.

Introduction 

Acknowledgements

1 The Time of Crisis

2 Deafness may Result 

3 Take My Hands and Let Them Move

4 Channels of Communication 

5 Good Times – Bad Times

6 Coping and Caring

7 Growing Up 

8 Sound or Silence? 

9 Staying Strong 

10 The Big Adventure 

11 Language for Life 

12 Borneo and Beyond 

13 What is Deaf?

14 Paths to Understanding 

Appendix 1: A Letter to a Deaf Son ‘Yellow is a Lovely Word to See’ 

Appendix 2: A Second Letter to a Deaf Son

Appendix 3: Some Useful Addresses

Appendix 4: Glossary

References 

Index