Book Categories: Deaf/Hearing Impaired

Ben, who wears a hearing aid, doesn’t like birthday party games, and doesn’t want to celebrate his birthday with a party. His mother throws him a party with games that all of his friends, who can and can’t hear, can play together.

A little girl relates how her hearing deficiency is detected and corrected with the use of a hearing aid.

With the help of a hearing-impaired man, a little dog finally manages to graduate from a training school for hearing dogs.

In search of a friend her own age, six-year-old Frannie meets Laura, who is deaf, and learns sign language from her.

Laura, who is deaf, is excited about becoming a big sister, but she worries that a new baby who can hear might get more love from their mother than she does.

The story of how Thomas Gallaudet became one of the early developers of American sign language and principal of the first school for the deaf in the United States.

Abby, who wears purple hearing aids, has a progressive hearing loss and her family chooses a cochlear implant for her. The story goes on to describe hearing testing, cochlear implants and the steps a family would take to explore this option of habilitation for their child who has hearing loss.

A book in the beginning sign language series, this includes an animal sign for each letter of the alphabet.

Charming, full-color photographs of basic animals plus illustrations of their corresponding signs offer children ages 1 to 4 a fun way to learn their first signs and vocabulary words.

A 10 year old boy returns to his parents apple farm after spending his first term at a school for the deaf.