Children of Deaf Adults (CODA): Memoirs

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Memoirs

Abrams, C. (1996). The silents. Gallaudet University Press. Offsite. Use the request tab for delivery within one day. 

Brown, M. C. (2013). On the beat of truth: A hearing daughter’s stories of her black deaf parents. Gallaudet University Press. 2nd fl, HV2534.B75 A3 2013. 

Cordier, L.D.H. (2005). Out of their silence: A memoir of Philip and Julia. Caldera Press. Offsite. Request tab available for delivery within one day. 

Crew, K. (2012). Burn down the ground: a memoir. Villard. 2nd fl., HQ759.912.C74 2012. 

Davis, L.J. (2000). My sense of silence: Memoirs of a childhood with deafness. University of Illinois Press. 2nd fl, HQ759.912.D38 2000.

Hall, C.J.M. (2018). Paris in America: A Deaf Nanticoke shoemaker and his daughter. Gallaudet University Press. 

Mauldon, D. (2023). Unheard voices: Finding language and belonging in the Deaf and hearing worlds. Fremantle Press. 

Miller, R.H. (2004). Deaf hearing boy: A memoir. Gallaudet University Press.

Mudgett-Decaro, P. (1998). On being both hearing and deaf: My bilingual- bicultural experiences. In I. Parasnis (Ed.). Cultural and language diversity and the deaf experience (pp. 272-288). Cambridge University Press. 

Preston, P. (1995). Mother father deaf: Living between sound and silence. Harvard University Press. Off-site. Request tab available for delivery within one day. 

Reppert, R.A. (2016). Adventures of a CODA: Child of deaf parents. Xulon Press. 2nd fl, HQ759.912.R47 2016. 

Sidransky, R. (2006). In silence: Growing up hearing in a deaf world. Gallaudet University Press. Off-site. Request tab available. HQ759.912 .S53 1990  

Sorenson, D. (2019). Between two worlds: My life as a child of deaf adults. Gallaudet University Press.

Torres, A. Signing in Puerto Rican: A hearing son and his deaf family. Gallaudet University Press. 

Uhlberg, M. (2008). Hands of my father: A hearing boy, his deaf parents, and the language of love. Bantam Books. Off-site. Request tab available. 

Walker, L. A. (2011). A loss for words: The story of deafness in a family. Harper Perennial.Off-site. Request tab available for delivery within one day. 

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