[stylist] Book about a deafblind guy

[Robert Newman]

Here is the text of a message that came to me:
Dear Director, 
I'm writing to let you know about this book which was featured as book of
the month in the December/January 2009 issue 
of RNID's One in Seven magazine. Now available on CD for large print or use
with screen reading software, as well as 
in regular print, of "Words in My Hands, A Teacher, A Deaf-Blind Man, An
Unforgetable Journey reviewer Michael Simmons says: 
"in sheer humanity...this book, a true story, is told with almost palpable
joy--and tears--at all the ups and downs involved...this is 
straight American-talk about relations between a deaf-blind client and his
teachers, and Helen Keller understandably, is evoked." 
With my degree in Therapeutic Recreation, I am also a certified sign
language interpreter, and the author of Words in My Hands, A Teacher, 
A Deaf-Blind Man, An Unforgettable Journey. This is a true story about an
elderly deaf-blind man who played classical piano. Before he lost his sight
and 
hearing to Usher Syndrome Bert Riedel was a dentist in Lombard, Illinois. I
met him when he was eighty-six-years old when I was hired to be his teacher.

I taught him to read tactile sign language. 
While the story illustrates psychosocial factors that complicate the
disabilities of deafness and deaf-blindness, it carries an inspirational
message as well. This book 
is a resource for educators, rehabilitation counselors, and other
professionals who work or interact with the deaf, blind, elderly, or
disabled. It is for families who 
deal with a member's hearing loss, vision loss, or other disability. This
book shows how miracles can happen where there are dedicated professionals
and 
caregivers. 
Words in My Hands has received: 
An award from The National League of American Pen Women
Praise from acclaimed author, Joanne Greenberg, from Patricia Clark,
researcher of
ASL at Rochester Institute of Technology, and B.J. LeJeune, Director of
Deaf-Blind Programs at Mississippi State University. 
Reviews by:
National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers, Inside Gcm,
Winter 2007 /Spring 2008
British Journal of Occupational Therapy, December 2007
California Association of Resource Specialists and Special Educators
Oklahoma Speech-Language Hearing Association
Deaf-Blind Perspectives
Alvin Roberts, Bureau of Blind Services Quality Assurance Administrator,
Carbondale, Illinios
Dr. McCay Vernon, Chairman of the National Deaf Academy Advisory
Board
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education (fall of 2006)
The National League of American Pen Women
Article: "Reconnected by Sign," American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A,
Genetic Drift, published July 2007
I have included reviews and a book announcement in the email attachments. I
hope you will share them with professionals and associates of children 
and adults with special needs. 
For more information or to order books, please contact me or go to
www.ellexapress.citymax.com. Books are also available through 
Barnes & Noble on-line, and at Harris Communications. 
Sincerely, 
Diane Chambers, Author
Words in My Hands, A Teacher, A Deaf-Blind Man, An Unforgettable Journey 
Hearing the Stream, A Survivor's Journey into the Sisterhood of Breast
Cancer
Ellexa Press LLC
www.ellexapress.citymax.com
dlc at ellexapress.citymax.com
303 591-1040


Robert Leslie Newman 
Email- newmanrl at cox.net
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