Summer Reading: Let’s Hear It For Almigal
As They Grow Up received a copy of this book to help facilitate this review
According to the March of Dimes, hearing loss is one of the most common birth defects, and more than 12,000 babies (3 in 1,000) are born in the U.S. each year with a hearing impairment.
Let’s Hear it For Almigal
Aan award winning children’s picture book about a little girl with cochlear implants. Almigal is unhappy when she can’t hear a baby’s giggle, robins chirping or Mommy and Daddy saying, “I love you.” Young readers will identify with Almigal and her friends, and rejoice with her when a solution is found. Let’s Hear it for Almigal teaches a universal message for ALL children to celebrate and accept our differences, and makes the perfect starting point for conversations about people with disabilities.
Other Facts on Kids and Hearing Loss:
· The Center for Hearing and Communication finds that about 3 million children in the U.S. have a hearing loss, with 1.3 million of them being under the age of 3.
· According to ASHA more than twenty-one million infants, children, and adults in America suffer from some degree of hearing loss in one or both ears.
· According to the CDC the earlier children with hearing loss start getting services, the more likely they are to reach their full potential.
What We Thought About Almigal:
This book is beautifully written! With my father having complete hearing loss in one ear since he was a small child and a 70% hearing loss in the other, it has had my son asking questions for awhile. While my father does wear hearing aids and is great at reading lips he still struggles on a daily basis. My six year old son has had an interest in sign language for awhile and has learned quite a bit. To be able to read his this book and to also teach him about the implants, he was completely taken in and had tons of questions afterwards. I love how this book also shows that everyone is different and that’s ok. It helps to define who we are.
About the Author:
When her daughter Ali was born in 1977, doctors said she would never speak, due to a profound hearing loss. Now at 60-years-old Wendy has authored her first book, Let Hear it For Almigal (May 2012, Handfinger Press), featuring a precocious little girl wearing cotton-candy pink cochlear implants, based on Ali who has grown into a beautiful, self-confident, happily married woman with a masters degree in Social Work. As a advocate for children with hearing loss Wendy is advising new moms of children with hearing loss, reading to students in schools, speaking to various organizations, and working closely with leading cochlear implant surgeons. Based in South Florida, Wendy is a mother of 2 and grandmother of 3, and is currently working on the sequel to Let’s Hear it for Almigal.
*** 5% of sales from Let’s Hear it for Almigal are donated to organizations that support children with hearing loss and their families***
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