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Index
Foreword by Martha A. Sheridan
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
PART ONE
THE EMERGENCE OF A SIBLING
Solo Dining While Growing Up
1
How Conversations Began
2
First Social Network
Sounds Dominate
Differences, Indifference or Acceptance?
3
Inside the Family
Your Sister Is Deaf
4
Intensities of Sibling Closeness
Battle of Sounds and the Visual
What to Do If Your Sibling Is Changing
Tuning In or Out?
PART TWO
MILAN IMPACT
5
Between Marginalization and Human Rights
Your Brother Can Learn to Speak
Preserving the Mother Tongue
Policy Makers Prevail
6
Molding Deaf Siblings
Signing-Speaking Simultaneously—ASL and English
Being Bilingual
Transformations Toward Equality
Transformational Historical Events
Intersectionality
Vigilant and Resilient
7
The Fallout
The Funeral
Children Learn What They Live
8
Magnet Secrets
Am I My Sister’s Keeper?
Peeling Off the Deaf Attribution
PART THREE
SIBLING BUDDIES
9
Sibling Monitors
Signing Family
Bubble Talk
10
Sibling Facilitators
11
Signing Siblings
12
Sibling-Interpreters
Jumping In
The Alliance
Hiring Outsiders
A Family Matter
Just Us Two
13
Investing Quality Time
14
We Will Chat Anyway
Conversations Lead the Way to Intimacy
Attitude Counts
Appendix A: Continuum of Intensities of Sibling Closeness
Appendix B: Questions for Guided Discussion
Appendix C: Let’s See What Our Fingers Know
Appendix D: BMJ Family Interpreter Fund
Chapter Notes
Introduction
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 12
Bibliography
List of Names and Terms
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