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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Teach Me to Love Myself: Memoir of a Pioneering Deaf Therapist

Teach Me to Love Myself: Memoir of a Pioneering Deaf Therapist

Elliott, Holly

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ISBN10: 193505208X
ISBN13: 9781935052081
Publisher: White River Press
Published: Oct 15 2008
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Holly Elliott was familiar with forging new paths. As she describes in her memoir, Teach Me to Love Myself, she was probably the first professionally trained deaf counselor-therapist in the United States. In her initial position as intern and then staff member at the University of California Center on Deafness, she became an advocate of total communication-a combination of sign language, lip-reading and oral competency that was a new horizon for rehabilitation therapy for the deaf. She was one of the first individuals with inner-ear nerve degeneration to receive a prototype cochlear implant and, several years later, one of the first to have an implant upgraded. Finally, in a more general sense of pathbreaking, she made a courageous career shift at mid-life. After twenty-five years of marriage and child-rearing, she accepted her deafness and embarked on a retraining that eventually led to a distinguished professional career.Holly Elliott was an unusual role model for women of her time, and still speaks to our twenty-first-century experience.

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