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The Real Helen Keller
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Websites
The Country of My Heart
www.swedenborg.org/odb/sermon_detail.cfm?sermonID=3584
A 'memorial tribute to Helen Adams Keller' by a Swedenborgian minister, which details her spiritual beliefs.
Yahoo Group – Disability Awareness
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/disability-awareness
World wide discussion group
British Deaf Association
www.britishdeafassociation.org.uk/
News, online resources and links from the BDA.
Deafblindness Web resources
www.deafblind.com/deafblnd.html
www.deafblind.co.uk/
Two huge collections of links to web resources for the deafblind.
Defiantly Deaf
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A00E2D91639F93BA1575BC0A962958260
Why some deaf people wish to stay that way.
Books
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller (Macmillan, 1903) £2.95
The 22-year-old Keller's first essay in autobiography.
Keller's 1929 memoir Midstream and her 1938 Journals
are out of print.
Helen Keller by Dorothy Herrman (University of Chicago Press,
1999) £11.50
Biography which focuses mainly on Helen's personal relationships.
Helen and Teacher: The story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy
by Joseph P Lash (Addison Wesley, 1997) £12.50
This biography follows the lives of the two women, from Sullivan's childhood in an almshouse in the 1860s, through decades of international fame to Keller's death.
Forbidden Signs: American culture and the campaign against sign language,
1847–1920 by Douglas C Baynton (Chicago, 1998) £9.50
History of the campaign by Alexander Graham Bell and others to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people.
Deaf in America: Voices from a culture by Carol Padden and Tom
Humphries (Harvard, 1990) £9.95
The authors argue that deafness is a culture, mediated through sign language.
Deaf-Blind Infants and Children: a developmental guide by JM McInnes
and JA Treffry (University of Toronto Press, 1993) £13.50
A practical reference guide for teachers, parents and professionals working or living with children who are both deaf and blind. It provides day-to-day guidance and suggestions about techniques and methods for assessing children with multi-sensory loss and for devising programmes to help them.
Education of Dual Sensory Impaired Children by David Etheridge
(David Fulton, 1995) £17
This book examines the issues faced by children with visual and hearing impairments, concentrating on assessment, communication, sensory stimulation and the importance of parents and families in a child's development.
Hand in Hand: Selected reprints edited by Huebner, Joffee, Prickett,
and Welch (American Foundation for the Blind, 1995) £29.95
An annotated bibliography on working with students who are deafblind, containing 27 journal articles accompanied by a description of more than 160 important print and audio-visual resources and information on how to get them.
Independence Without Sight or Sound by Dona Sauerburger (American
Foundation for the Blind, 1993) £35.95
This book provides a wealth of insights, strategies, and techniques for how to communicate and feel comfortable with deafblind clients, colleagues and acquaintances.
Teaching Children Who Are Deafblind edited by Aitken, Buultjens,
Clark, Eyre and Pease (David Fulton, 2000) £18
A practical manual written by professionals from a variety of backgrounds, looking at the key issues of communication, curriculum, teaching and learning, and personal and social development.
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (Longman,
1996) £21.99
The history of the US from below – includes an account of the rise
and fall of the IWW.
Deaf Century (Channel 4, 1999) £1
Booklet that traces the history of deaf people in the UK from the dark
days of the 1900s through struggles for equal opportunities and the recognition
of British Sign Language to the current debate over cochlear implants.
To order a copy, send a cheque or postal order for £1 (made payable
to Channel 4 Television) to Deaf Century, PO Box 4000, Manchester, M60
3LL.
Organisations
Deafblind UK
National Centre for Deafblindness
John and Lucille van Geest Place
Cygnet Road
Hampton
Peterborough PE7 8FD
Tel (voice/text): 01733 358 100
Fax: 01733 358 356
E-mail: info@deafblind.org.uk
Helpline: 0800 132 320 or helpline@deafblind.org.uk
Website: www.deafblind.org.uk
Contact for information about awareness-raising campaigns, participation in national developmental/lobbying groups and for advice on dual sensory loss. Also provide rehabilitation services and training in touch-based communication systems for deafblind people.
Sense
101 Pentonville Road
London N1 9LG
Tel: 0845 127 0060
Textphone: 0845 127 0062
Fax: 0845 127 0061
E-mail: info@sense.org.uk
E-mail: enquiries@sense.org.uk
Website: www.sense.org.uk
National charity supporting people who are both deaf and blind, their families, carers and professionals. Contact for information about the services they provide as well as free factsheets and publications.
Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB)
105 Judd Street
London WC1H 9NE
Tel: 020 7388 1266
Fax: 020 7388 2034
Helpline: 0845 766 9999 (Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 10am-5pm, Wed 10am-4pm) or helpline@rnib.org.uk
E-mail: rnib@rnib.org.uk
Website: www.rnib.org.uk
Offer a wide range of services and support to anyone with a serious sight problem. Contact for information and advice on education and employment issues, and advocacy services.
Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID)
19-23 Featherstone Street
London EC1Y 8SL
Telephone: 020 7296 8000
Textphone: 020 7296 8001
Fax: 020 7296 8199
Information lines:
Tel: 0808 808 0123 (freephone);
Textphone: 0808 808 9000 (freephone)
Fax: 020 7296 8199
SMS: 0780 000 0360
E-mail: informationline@rnid.org.uk
E-mail: helpline@rnid.org.uk
Website: www.rnid.org.uk
Contact for free confidential and impartial information on a range of subjects including employment, equipment, legislation, benefits and many issues relating to deafness and hearing loss.
Royal Association for Deaf people
18 Westside Centre
London Road
Stanway
Colchester
Essex CO3 8PH
Tel: 0845 688 2525
Textphone: 0845 688 2527
Minicom: 0845 688 2527
SMS: 07851 423 866
Fax: 0845 688 2526
E-mail: info@royaldeaf.org.uk
Website: www.royaldeaf.org.uk
RAD strives to meet the individual needs of profoundly deaf children and adults and deafblind people. Contact for information and advice about the range of services offered, including deafblind interpreting services.
CACDP: Advancing communication between deaf and hearing people
Durham University Science Park
Block 4, Stockton Road
Durham DH1 3UZ
Tel: 0191 383 1155
Text: 0191 383 7915
Fax: 0191 383 7914
E-mail: durham@cacdp.org.uk
Offers a portfolio of qualifications in sign language and other forms of communication with deaf and deafblind people.
Hearing Concern (The British Association of the Hard of Hearing)
95 Gray's Inn Road
London WC1X 8TX
Tel: 020 7440 9871
Fax: 020 7440 9872
Textphone: 020 7440 9873
E-mail: info@hearingconcern.org.uk
Website: www.hearingconcern.org.uk
Hearing Concern campaigns on behalf of its client group and promotes awareness of the communication needs of deaf and hard of hearing people. Contact for advice and support on issues related to hearing loss. Also publishes a quarterly membership magazine, price £12.50.
Forest Bookshop
The New Building
Ellwood Road
Milkwall
Coleford
Gloucestershire GL16 7LE
Tel: (voice/text) 01594 833 858 (Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm)
Fax: 01594 833 446
E-mail: help@forestbooks.com
Website: www.ForestBooks.com
Specialist in books on deafness, sign language and deaf issues, with more than 1,000 books, videos and CD-ROMs in stock.
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