If you were here in Los Angeles (and more specifically, at SDI), I would buy you a beer and a shot at the Cozy, because you know that’s where we would all be tonight

We miss you!
jeny

I work at Hesperian – you might know us because we publish a book called Where There Is No Doctor (a lot of Peace Corps volunteers use it in their work). I wanted to tell you about another book we publish called Helping Children Who Are Deaf http://www.hesperian.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=HB&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=B110 (available for free download in its entirety, at http://www.hesperian.org).

Like Where There Is No Doctor, Helping Children Who Are Deaf is simply written, with plenty of helpful illustrations and activities from everyday life to help health workers, educators, and anyone else who’s interested to communicate with children who are deaf, assess what these children can and cannot hear, choose and learn/teach a language (sign or spoken), encourage social development, meet a deaf child’s needs in a school setting, form support groups, prevent child sexual abuse, prevent hearing loss, and more.

Please do pass this information on to your country director AND to your colleagues. If the volunteers find this free information useful enough, maybe the Peace Corps will consider sending this book to all their volunteers involved in deaf education. (It’s only $12.)

Thanks again, and my apologies if this note is intrusive.

I am a future Peace Corp volunteer with my training in Loitikitok. My friends want to send me off with $$ to contribute to a charity. I am wondering if it would be appropriate to donate some money to the school where you teach. Please let me know in the next few days if possible. You seem to be on your blog regularly. Thanks! And, if not your school, maybe you can suggest a charity.

Mary Canada