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Sound in the real world / by Milios, Rita.;

Includes bibliographical references (page 47) and index.Includes bibliographical references and index.What is sound? - The study of sound - Understanding sound - Sound and human hearing - Noise pollution - Sound in the animal kingdom - Sound technology.School Library Journal, April 2013Sound is everywhere! This book uses real-world examples to bring the concept of sound to life in an approachable way. Clearly-written text draws in readers with concrete examples involving familiar, everyday things, from a train whistle to a thunder clap. The book covers the history of and key figures in the understanding of sound, including Pythagoras and Galileo. Major concepts covered include sound waves, frequency, amplitude, ultrasound, sonar, echoes, the Doppler effect, sonic booms, cochlear implants, noise pollution, echolocation, and decibels. Full-color photos, a glossary, an index, sidebars, primary source documents, and other creative content enhance the book. It also includes prompts and activities that directly engage students in developing the reading, writing, and critical thinking skills promoted by the Common Core standards. This well-researched title has a credentialed content consultant and aligns with Common Core and state standards. Core Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company. TOC, sidebars, timeline, common core activities, timeline, further readings, Web links, glossary.3456780780LAccelerated Reader ARAccelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Sound.;

Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6

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True biz : a novel / by Nović, Sara,1987-author(CARDINAL)408588;

"True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history final, and have doctors, politicians, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the headmistress, who is fighting to keep her school open and her marriage intact, but might not be able to do both at the same time. As a series of crises both personal and political threaten to unravel each of them, Charlie, Austin, and February find their lives inextricable from one another-and changed forever. This is a story of sign language and lip-reading, cochlear implants and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, this is an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal celebration of human connection."--

Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Bildungsromans.; School fiction.; Novels.; Deaf people; American Sign Language; Interpersonal relations; Deaf people; Boarding schools; Deaf children; High schools; Friendship; Deaf people; Friendships.;

Available copies: 67 / Total copies: 90

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The universal sense : how hearing shapes the mind / by Horowitz, Seth S.(CARDINAL)802107;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-293) and index.In the beginning was the boom -- Spaces and places : a walk in the park -- Listeners of the low end : fish and frogs -- The high-frequency club -- What lies below : time, attention, and emotion -- Ten dollars to the first person who can define "music" (and get a musician, a psychologist, a composer, a neuroscientist, and someone listening to an iPod to agree) -- Sticky ears : soundtracks, laugh tracks, and jingles all the way -- Hacking your brain through your ears -- Weapons and weirdness -- Future noizes -- You are what you hear."Every day, we are beset by millions of sounds-ambient ones like the rumble of the train and the hum of air conditioner, as well as more pronounced sounds, such as human speech, music, and sirens. But how do we process what we hear every day? This book answers such revealing questions as: Why do we often fall asleep on train rides or in the car, and what does it have to do with hearing? What is it about the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard that makes us cringe? Why do city folks have trouble sleeping in the country, and vice versa? Why can't you get that jingle out of your head? Starting with the basics of the biology, neuroscientist and musician Seth Horowitz explains how sound affects us, and in turn, how we've learned to manipulate sound: intomusic, commercial jingles, car horns, and modern inventions like cochlear implants, ultrasound scans, and the mosquito ringtone. Combining the best parts of This is Your Brain on Music and How We Decide, this book gives new insight into what the sounds of our world have to do with the way we think, feel, and interact"--Reveals how the human sense of hearing manipulates how people think, consume, sleep, and feel, explaining the hearing science behind such phenomena as why the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard causes cringing and why songs get stuck in one's head.

Subjects: Hearing; Sound;

Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4

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Ada and the Helpers. by Peterson, Travis.;

"Be bold! Be brave! Let you be you... and let's help others, too!"That's Ada's motto.Ada is a dancing, deaf fox with cochlear implants who loves to help others. On her way to dance in a talent show one day, she meets three other creatures who are each facing a physical challenge or disability of their own. She decides to help each of her new friends to see past their challenges and discover their natural, God-given strengths. But can they help her in return? Ada's a bit nervous about the talent show!Will she be able to hear the music clearly?Will everyone laugh at her?Pick up a copy of Ada and the Helpers today and follow Ada and her new friends on an exciting new adventure that inspires friendship, helping others, inclusion, and finding your strengths. Plus, your child can learn the ASL alphabet at the same time! The rhyming nature of the story is welcoming for hearing kids, but is especially helpful for young children who are hard-of-hearing.As an adult, you'll love the surprise ending that brings all the nostalgic feels for your inner 80's child!This children's book comes with some special features, including:One word spelled out using the American Sign Language alphabet on each spread of the story (14 in all) in diverse skin tones so that you can help your child practice learning the ASL alphabet and begin fingerspelling.An ASL alphabet chart in the back of the book. By the way, the hardcover edition has a double-sided dust jacket that also serves as an American sign language alphabet poster, perfect for hanging in your child's bedroom or in the classroom!The book also introduces three of the ling sounds used in the Ling Six Sound Test, which is used to help audiologists, special educators or teachers of the deaf, and parents or hard-of-hearing children assess whether or not the child can hear and recognize the full range of vocal sound. By helping your child associate these phonics with the characters in the book, it becomes easier for you to practice these sounds with them.Masterfully illustrated by fine artist Melissa Fischer, Ada and the Helpers is a beautiful book that your child will want to read over and over again. Whether they are deaf or hard-of-hearing and use hearing aids or cochlear implants to assist them, or you simply want to introduce the concept of sign language to your hearing children, Ada and her friends will be instant favorites in your household or classroom!

Subjects: Fiction.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Articulate : a deaf memoir of voice / by Kolb, Rachel,author.;

Includes bibliographical references.Articulate -- Soundings -- Success/Failure -- Of the Eye -- Intelligibility -- Literacy -- Deduction -- Bionics -- Hybridity -- Interpretations -- Access -- Reciprocities.A deaf writer's exploration of language, communication, and what it means to be articulate--and her journey to reclaim her voice. Rachel Kolb was born profoundly deaf the same year that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed, and she grew up as part of the first generation of deaf people with legal rights to accessibility services. Still, from a young age, she contorted herself to expectations set by a world that prioritizes hearing people. So she learned to speak through speech therapy and to piece together missing sounds through lipreading and an eventual cochlear implant, all while finding clarity and meaning in American Sign Language (ASL) and written literature. Now in Articulate, Kolb blends personal narrative with cultural commentary to explore the different layers of deafness, language, and voice. She deconstructs multisensory experiences of language, examining the cultural importance hearing people attach to sound, the inner labyrinths of speech therapy, the murkiness of lipreading, and her lifelong intimacy with written English. And she uses her own experiences to illuminate the complexities of disability access, partnerships with ASL interpreters, Deaf culture and d/Deaf identity, and the perception versus reality of deafness. Part memoir, part cultural exploration, Kolb details a life lived among words in varied sensory forms and considers why and how those words matter. Told through rich storytelling, analysis, and humor, Articulate is a linguistic coming-of-age in both deaf and hearing worlds, challenging us to consider how language expresses our humanity-and offering more ways we might exist together.

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Kolb, Rachel.; Deaf people; Deaf people; Deaf people; Deaf women;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 16

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You never know [large print]: a novel of domestic suspense / by Briscoe, Connie,author.(CARDINAL)379353;

"Alexis Roberts is asleep one night when someone breaks into her home and tries to assault her. Though she manages to escape serious harm, the invasion has left her scared and shaken. The police are investigating, but Alexis has few details to share with the detective on the scene. She's hearing impaired and could not find her cochlear implants in the darkness, which left her unable to both see and hear the intruder. Was her attacker a stranger or someone whom she knows--a person who may have once been close to her Flashback to a year earlier when Alexis meets the man of her dreams. Marcus is handsome, successful, polished and everything she's ever wanted. Attentive, charming, and fluent in American sign language, he's unlike any man she's ever known. Believing he is the Mr. Right who was meant to be her forever partner, Alexis says yes when he asks her to marry him. Why wouldn't she But once they're married, Marcus grows distant and resembles little of the charming man who swept her off her feet. Who is this stranger she's married Determined to uncover the truth, Alexis begins to carefully unearth the secrets in her husband's life. When she makes a horrifying discovery--his first wife is missing and suspected dead--Marcus suddenly disappears without a trace. Now, in this gigantic house in an isolated neighborhood with no family and friends nearby to help, a terrified Alexis waits for her intruder to return. She's trapped in the dream home that has become a nightmare, unsure who Marcus really is . . . and what he's capable of doing"--

Subjects: Large print books.; Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Hard of hearing people; Spouses;

Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 10

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Hearing Beethoven : a story of musical loss and discovery / by Wallace, Robin,author.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-270) and index.We're all familiar with the image of a fierce and scowling Beethoven, struggling doggedly to overcome his rapidly progressing deafness. That Beethoven continued to play and compose for more than a decade after he lost his hearing is often seen as an act of superhuman heroism. But the truth is that Beethoven's response to his deafness was entirely human. And by demystifying what he did, we can learn a great deal about Beethoven's music. Perhaps no one is better positioned to help us do so than Robin Wallace, who not only has dedicated his life to the music of Beethoven but also has close personal experience with deafness. One day, at the age of forty-four, Wallace's late wife, Barbara, found she couldn't hear out of her right ear-the result of radiation administered to treat a brain tumor early in life. Three years later, she lost hearing in her left ear as well. Over the eight and a half years that remained of her life, despite receiving a cochlear implant, Barbara didn't overcome her deafness or ever function again like a hearing person. Wallace shows here that Beethoven didn't do those things, either. Rather than heroically overcoming his deafness, as we're commonly led to believe, Beethoven accomplished something even more difficult and challenging: he adapted to his hearing loss and changed the way he interacted with music, revealing important aspects of its very nature in the process. Creating music became for Beethoven a visual and physical process, emanating from visual cues and from instruments that moved and vibrated. His deafness may have slowed him down, but it also led to works of unsurpassed profundity.

Subjects: Biographies.; Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827; Deafness.;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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Far from the tree : parents, children and the search for identity / by Solomon, Andrew,1963-(CARDINAL)203434;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 707-906) and index.Son -- Deaf -- Dwarfs -- Down Syndrome -- Autism -- Schizophrenia -- Disability -- Prodigies -- Rape -- Crime -- Transgender -- Father.In this book the author tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so. His proposition is that diversity is what unites us all. He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, multiple severe disabilities, with children who are prodigies, who are conceived in rape, who become criminals, who are transgender. While each of these characteristics is potentially isolating, the experience of difference within families is universal, as are the triumphs of love he documents in every chapter. All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves. Drawing on 40,000 pages of interview transcripts with more than three hundred families, the author mines the eloquence of ordinary people facing extreme challenges. Whether considering prenatal screening for genetic disorders, cochlear implants for the deaf, or gender reassignment surgery for transgender people, he narrates a universal struggle toward compassion. Many families grow closer through caring for a challenging child; most discover supportive communities of others similarly affected; some are inspired to become advocates and activists, celebrating the very conditions they once feared. Woven into their courageous and affirming stories is the author's journey to accepting his own identity, which culminated in his midlife decision, influenced by this research, to become a parent. In this book he explores themes of generosity, acceptance, and tolerance, all rooted in the insight that love can transcend every prejudice; and expands our definition of what it is to be human.National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (general), 2012.

Subjects: Children with disabilities; Exceptional children; Parents of children with disabilities; Parents of exceptional children; Identity (Psychology); Parent and child;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3

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Raising and educating a deaf child : a comprehensive guide to the choices, controversies, and decisions faced by parents and educators / by Marschark, Marc.(CARDINAL)368385;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-256) and index.1480L

Subjects: Deaf children.; Deaf children; Parents of deaf children.;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3

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High technology medical technology / by Murray, Julie,1969-(CARDINAL)661881;

Technology keeps progressing and advancements in the medical field will continue to amaze mankind for years to come. Readers will learn about amazing inventions throughout the years, what they do, why they're important, and what technology of the future might look like. This title is at a Level 3 and is specifically written for transitional readers. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.660L790

Subjects: Cancer; Cancer; Cancer; People with disabilities; Three-dimensional printing; Printing industry; Amputees.; Hard of hearing children.; Deafness in children.; Cochlear implants.; Hearing; Hearing disorders.; Ear; Computers; Computers; Artificial intelligence; Technology; Technological innovations; Medicine; Medical innovations; Medical technology; Medical care; Technology; Technology; Eyeglasses.; Human-computer interaction; Physicians; Physical therapists; Pathologists; Nurses; Occupations; Hospitals; Health; Hygiene; Medical care; Medical offices; Medical care.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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