What's That Pig Outdoors: A Memoir of Deafness

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Summary: Insightive
Review: A wonderful book, with insights for parents of deaf children. This book proves our deaf children do not think any differently to hearing children and having a disability does not go hand-in-hand with being disabled. A wonderful read for parents of deaf children.

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Summary: About being Deaf by someone who is Deaf.
Review: I read this book back in 93 when I had just lost my hearing. I was 14 and dealing with suddenly becoming deaf. Most books about Deafness are written by physicians, or parents of the deaf, or children of the deaf, and not by the deaf themselves. Kisor's stories about lipreading and growing up and just being Deaf were wonderful for me to read. It gave me hope... if he is totally Deaf and can accomplish that much, then I, with a little bit of hearing left, certainly should be able to. I would certainly recommend this book to anyone deaf who is oral, anyone late deaffened, or anyone just interested in reading about the trials and joys of a hearing loss.

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Summary: About being Deaf by someone who is Deaf.
Review: I read this book back in 93 when I had just lost my hearing. I was 14 and dealing with suddenly becoming deaf. Most books about Deafness are written by physicians, or parents of the deaf, or children of the deaf, and not by the deaf themselves. Kisor's stories about lipreading and growing up and just being Deaf were wonderful for me to read. It gave me hope... if he is totally Deaf and can accomplish that much, then I, with a little bit of hearing left, certainly should be able to. I would certainly recommend this book to anyone deaf who is oral, anyone late deaffened, or anyone just interested in reading about the trials and joys of a hearing loss.

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Summary: What's That Pig Outdoors
Review: I read this book for an ASL class in college and wow. This book is great. An amazing autobiography written by a deaf man, Henry Kisor who has managed to exist in a hearing world as a deaf man strictly by lip reading. He has been a journalist and this is amazing to me. A wonderful story written in the point of view of a deaf man and his lifelong journey to success and living in the hearing world. Reading this book has made me take a look at my life and made me feel as if I could do anything.

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Summary: Heart-touching humor and eye opening wonder of coping!
Review: The best story I have ever read regarding hearing impair loss and Mr. Kisor's story parallels closely to my life also and reading it in a light hearting way lifts my esteem to bulldoze all obstacles in my path. And to help broaden knowledge to other people to accept and help us instead of hinder our abilty to live normal lives. For we all have a purpose here to live, grow, educate, learn, teach, help & love. A book for all ages!