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"""All parents will recognize the moments of both terror and pride that mark the journey; parents of deaf children will garner both information and insights."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""Eloquently explains how hearing works...An excellent book for anyone with deafness in the family or with a desire to better understand how people hear, why hearing loss occurs, and how it is treated."" -- ""Booklist"" ""In this moving and informative book, former Newsweek reporter Denworth recounts her emotional and intellectual quest to help her deaf infant son hear...This is a book that parents, particularly of deaf children, may find indispensable."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""Read this if you have ears or ever interact with humans. What a moving and brilliant tour of the scientific, emotional and political landscape of hearing impairment. As a reader, I'm grateful to Lydia Denworth. As a writer, I'm jealous."" -- ""David Shenk, author of The Genius in All of Us and The Forgetting"""

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Lydia Denworth is a former Newsweek reporter, London bureau chief at People, and professor of journalism at Fordham University. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Child, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, and other publications. Karen Saltus has narrated television and radio commercials, audiobooks, textbooks, multimedia, film, and voice prompts for interactive telephone applications. She began her career thirty years ago at a radio station in Portland, Maine. She later became a creative director for a station in Massachussetts. In 1994 she became a full-time freelance voice-over talent.

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