Sign Language

deafness categories, 255 causes autosomal recessive inheritance, 257 congenital deafness, 258 inherited causes, 17 deaf children and hearing families, difficulties, 21 diagnosis, 256 DEAFPRIDE (organization), 249 DeafWorldWeb (Web site), 250 “death,” 196 decibels (sound), 258 denial of deafness/hearing loss, parents of deaf children, 33 descriptive signs name signs, 104 Carter, Jimmy, 105 Clerc, Laurent, 104 families, 82, 104 friends, 104 Reagan, Ronald, 105 necessity, 164 desserts “cookie,” 147 “dessert,” 142 “pie,” 147 diagnosis of deafness, 256 dialects, Southen dialect, 35