Deaf Esprit: Inspiration, Humor and Wisdom from the Deaf Community

by Mark Drolsbaugh

Book Overview

A compilation of stories that will provoke a smile, a tear, and most importantly, a sense of well-being. --back cover This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0967399807
• ISBN13: 9780967399805
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Ago Gifts and Publications
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Adorable and good Gain knowledge

this is very good book. I enjoyed it! - Deaf Mentor, ASL teacher.

Lots of Possibility!!!!

Cut up into short essays, this book shares with you the many experiences and feelings of those involved with the Deaf community. Everything from humor to insight to blood-boiling frustration will hit you as you read this book. Interested in learning about the Deaf community? Learning about different deaf people's experiences? About both sides of the coin? Then this book is perfect for you, easy to read, and well worth your time and money. Highly recommended. That's just this deafie's opinion. :o)

Profiles of Deaf People and People of Deaf

Entertaining, easy+to+read and inspiring. It would make an enjoyable collection for elementary, high school and college, not only that adults.. and can be used as text or supplement for Deaf Studies, Sign Language Classes or American History including Deaf American Indians. Happy Exploring! A very few book like DEaf Esprit where you can find that they have challenges to overcome... being Deaf may be among their challenges.. what a way to lift up the spirits..finding page after page of inspiration like Henning C. F. Irgens, Majoriebell S. Holcomb, Damara Goff Paris' and Glenn Alfred/Karen B. Johnson, The Dine and the others.

Best Book EVER!

I strongly recommend that you read this book! From Charlotte Wilhite's struggle to determine whether her deaf son should have a cochlear implant and Jake Donnell's frank discussion on how his family should accept, rather than fix him, to Henning Irgen's life as a deaf teenager in Norway during the Nazi occupation. Also of note is Damara Paris' vivid description of an India-born deaf man and his struggle to prove his independence, Donna Platt's humourous take on her Phillipine name sign and the poems written by Rusty Wales, Carrie Pierce and Marianne Decher. A MUST read!

Excellent Book!

This book was one of the best books I have ever read! It is a potpourri collection of different deaf perspectives and perspectives from their family. Charlotte Wilhites moving story regarding all sides of the cochlear implant controversy as she considered whether to implant her son moved me to tears! Equally good was Henning Irgen's story about growing up deaf in Nazi-occupied Norway. Damara Paris (also an editor for this book) wrote beautifully of the struggle for independence for an India born deaf man.You won't be able to put this book down!