DEAF PARENT AND A DEAF BROTHER: SOME PERSPECTIVES ON IDENTITY AS A HEARING CHILD GROWING UP IN A PREDOMINATELY DEAF FAMILY

Authors

  • James Townshend

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11157/sites-vol3iss1id50

Abstract

My mother father deaf, my brother deaf point-left, brother point-right, hearing, me what? me hearing but deaf heart.

Author Biography

James Townshend

Specialist Resource Teacher, Visual Communication

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Townshend, J. (2008). DEAF PARENT AND A DEAF BROTHER: SOME PERSPECTIVES ON IDENTITY AS A HEARING CHILD GROWING UP IN A PREDOMINATELY DEAF FAMILY. Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, 3(1), 214–222. https://doi.org/10.11157/sites-vol3iss1id50

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2006)

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