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Jenny Froude
Making Sense in Sign [PDF ebook]
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Language which develops ‘against all the odds’ is very precious. Words were not enough for Tom; it was signs that made sense of a world silenced by meningitis. Confidence came via joyful and positive steps to communication from babyhood; a brush with epilepsy, a cochlear implant in his teens and life as an independent young adult followed.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 192 ● ISBN 9781853596308 ● Publisher Multilingual Matters ● Published 2003 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5542208 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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