![]() ![]() Mom just generally stunts her independence (won’t let her babysit, ride bike by self, etc.) but by the end of the novel, they all grow, and Joey proves that she can do all the things.Īfter a couple of years of homeschooling, Joey is enrolled in mainstream school and has to use a loaner FM system, and has poor grades due to no language access. If she can’t see someone's lips, words are missing from their dialog.Īt the beginning of the book, Joey knows a few ASL signs and the alphabet, courtesy of someone from the hospital who worked with her after she was deafened. Joey speechreads fairly perfectly when she can see lips. ![]() Her memories of sounds are triggered by sights like leaves blowing in the wind. Anyway, given that Joey was deafened at age six, she still has memories of sounds like birds, which she misses, even though she has now become used to silence. This is refreshing, given the number of authors write "totally" deaf characters, as in real life deaf people are usually not totally deaf. Joey is “nearly deaf as a post” but obviously can hear loud enough sounds like lawnmowers or sirens. So she did do some research and had someone look over her work, which is something many people don't do. She also attended a few summer-session ASL classes and read books by deaf and coda authors (but provides no specific titles). Rorby, the hearing author, had a late-deafened Deaf sensitivity reader for this book. ![]() Deaf reader reviewing books with deaf characters. ![]()
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