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Special thanks to the Rochester School for the Deaf for their generous help with this book’s photos. The author is also deeply grateful to Scott R. Smith, MD, MPH, a deaf person himself as well as a pediatrician who works with deaf and hard-of-hearing chil- dren, for his insights and help.

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Series ISBN: 978-1-4222-3027-5 ISBN: 978-1-4222-3033-6 ebook ISBN: 978-1-4222-8818-4

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Libal, Autumn. [Ocean inside]

Deaf and hard of hearing / Autumn Libal. pages cm — (Living with a special need) Audience: 12. Audience: Grade 7 to 8. Revision of: Ocean inside. 2004. Includes index. ISBN 978-1-4222-3033-6 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-4222-3027-5 (series) — ISBN 978-1-4222-8818-4 (ebook) 1. Deaf children--Juvenile literature. I. Title.

HV2392.L52 2015 362.4'2083—dc23

2014010628

Picture credits: Agnostic Preachers Kid: p. 104; Benjamin Stewart: pp. 65, 74; Carrienel- son1 | Dreamstime.com: p. 120; Clarke School for the Deaf: pp. 113, 117; Comstock: p. 85; Digital Vision: pp. 17, 20; Dover, Dictionary of American Portraits : pp. 54, 76 (cour- tesy of the Library of Congress, Brady-Handy Collection); Library of Congress: p. 24, 76; Life Art: pp. 86, 87, 115; National Portrait Gallery: p. 54; Patricia Therrien: p. 89; Photo Alto: pp. 92, 114; PhotoDisc: pp. 19, 22, 23, 37, 49, 88, 119; Rochester School for the Deaf: pp. 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 46, 47, 48, 50, 52, 53, 61, 62, 64, 66, 73, 90, 101, 102, 103; The Seeing Eye: p. 78; Susquehanna Service Dogs: p. 77. Individuals in PhotoDisc and Photo Alto images are models, and these images are intended for illustrative purposes only.