Deaf Like Me Book Report

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Deaf Like Me Book Review Deaf Like Me follows the lives of two parents, Thomas and Louise Spradley, and the struggles they encounter with their family. Thomas and Louise live an average life and have a son named Bruce, who one summer becomes ill with German measles, or rubella. The real story begins though when a few days prior to Bruce becoming sick Louise learns that she is pregnant. This is where the real story starts, as the doctor informs Thomas and Louise that if she contracted rubella while pregnant it may lead to birth defects in the baby, so for the next nine months Thomas and Louise worry about what is to become of their new baby. When the baby is born they name her Lynn, at first sight Lynn appears to be a perfectly normal and healthy baby, there are no signs that any sort of deformities either physical or mental are present. Thomas and Louise are relieved, but still have lingering worries. As time passes Lynn continues to grow normally and eventually the fear subsides, and they are just thankful to have a happy healthy family.…show more content…
At the celebration there are of course fireworks. Lynn falls asleep before the festivities begin, but when the fireworks start to go off, the do not startle or wake Lynn up. This is when Lynn’s parents realized that she may be deaf. Lynns parents were very persistent, and wanted to know the exact diagnosis of Lynn. This was a new and unfamiliar problem to Thomas and Louise, and they approached it the best they could with the little knowledge they had on the subject. The first couple of years were spent on trying to teach Lynn to talk, and train Lynn to hear through a hearing aid. Thomas and Louise believed that the only way for Lynn to be “normal” and live a “normal” life in society was for her to be able to talk and lip
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