This volume lays out the practical steps families can take to adjust to a loved one's hearing loss. The book shows how the exchange of information can be altered at fundamental levels, what these alterations entail, and how they can affect one's abil...

Gustie Blaine is 15 when she contracts meningitis and loses her hearing as a result. After struggling to adjust, she learns through her new boyfriend and his deaf brother about other deaf people and how they succeed.