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Turning the Tide: Making Life Better for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Schoolchildren
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Product Description Both Gina A. Oliva and Linda Risser Lytle know what it is like to be the only deaf student in a mainstream school. Though they became successful educators, they recognize the need to research the same isolation experienced by other deaf and hard of hearing persons. In this way, they hope to improve education for current and future deaf students. Their efforts have culminated in Turning the Tide: Making Life Better for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Schoolchildren. Turning the Tide presents a qualitative study of deaf and hard of hearing students who attended mainstream schools. The authors conducted three focus groups in different regions in the country, enlisting six to eight participants with diverse backgrounds for each session. They also gathered information from 113 online respondents who answered the same questions used in the focus groups. The respondents discussed many issues, including the difficulties of finding friends and social access, the struggle to establish an identity, the challenges of K-12 interpreting and class placement, and the vast potential of summer and weekend programs for deaf students. Their empowering stories clearly demonstrate that no deaf or hard of hearing student should be educated alone. The authors also elicited comments on other changes that parents, advocates, and other allies could work toward to improve further the educational environment of deaf children. From the Author At Gina's 60th birthday party, she shared that she had been thinking for some time about writing a second book. Her first book, Alone in the Mainstream: A Deaf Woman Remembers Public School was published in 2004 and she had been feeling for some time that the story was unfinished. The individuals she had featured in that book were among the first beneficiaries of IDEA. However, what she actually found was that the majority of them had received no support services during their K - 12 years -- schools were slow to actually enforce IDEA. Surely all these years later, you would think things had changed. However, Gina strongly doubted the changes were in the right direction. She wanted to investigate and this time around, she was hoping to not have to do it alone. Linda was at that birthday party and one of Gina's biggest writing fans. In fact, she later learned she was the first local person to congratulate Gina on Alone in the Mainstream - perhaps one of the first people to read it. After that book's publication we had invited each other to collaborate on several chapters in edited books, and we discovered we worked well together. Those brief writing endeavors only somewhat prepared us for our experience over the course of the past two years researching and writing Turning the Tide. That our combined academic and personal assets would so seamlessly produce a book-length publication that neither of us could have accomplished alone was quite a joy! We set out with a very general sense of who would do what in sharing the load, but as things proceeded we developed a natural give and take as well as a consideration for each other's constraints. If Linda was overwhelmed with the work her faculty position required, Gina would pick up the slack. If Gina was sequestered in her beloved and sacred beach town, Linda would do likewise. Happily, it just worked. We started out by getting together for coffee a few times to discuss our vision for the book, since we would need to send a proposal to the Gallaudet University Press. We knew we wanted it to be a follow up to Alone in the Mainstream, so that readers could see what changes have occurred as the result of IDEA being in operation for another decade. Data from focus groups and a survey of deaf and hard of hearing adults in the 18-34 age group would for sure become the core of the book. Fortunately Linda was still "working," meaning drawing a salary from Gallaudet, so we were hopeful we could get a little research funding to support the focus groups. We already knew of,
