When Jennifer Amy Rose's firstborn baby fails her postnatal
hearing test, Rose is stunned: How will she and her husband, both
hearing, raise a deaf child? How will they communicate with a baby
who can't hear their voices? Although her mother is hard of
hearing, Rose has no real experience with deafness. But then she
discovers a hidden history, going back generations to the ghettoes
of Eastern Europe and the culture of shame that was attached to the
"deaf and dumb."
Now the parent of two congenitally deaf children, Rose shares
her journey into the modern world of the hearing impaired, and the
tough decisions she and her husband have made about hearing aids,
cochlear implants, and sign language. She also travels back in time
to imagine her silent relatives who had few options but showed
surprising creativity in dealing with a world that preferred to
ignore them. If a Tree Falls is a memoir, a tale of the
imagination, a guide for families with special-needs children and
adults, and a poignant meditation on life's most unpredictable
moments.
Jennifer Amy Rose is the author of The Messy Self. She holds a
PhD in philosophy from Stanford University and lives in
Massachusetts with her husband and two daughters.
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