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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Hearing is complex and doesn’t always work perfectly for every person.
Chapter 3: Language growth relates to hearing, yet deaf children still have equal language learning abilities overall.
Chapter 4: The debate over the best education for deaf people spans many centuries.
Chapter 5: Advances in hearing science enabled researchers to create modern new hearing aid technologies.
Chapter 6: Both hearing and deaf children need time to build neural pathways that let them understand language fully.
Chapter 7: Cochlear implants remain imperfect and hotly debated.
Chapter 8: Cochlear implants were expected to transform deaf education, yet outcomes have been mixed overall.
Description
I Can Hear You Whisper (2014) is about human communication, and the phenomenon and culture of deafness. Hearing is a complex process that doesn’t function the same way for everyone, and those who are deaf or hard of hearing have developed alternative methods of communication, around which a special culture has grown. These blinks give an overview of that culture and show that it’s just as rich as any other.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone interested in the science or culture of deafness
- Sociology or medical students