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Hands of My Father by Myron Uhlberg

Hands of My Father

A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love

by Myron Uhlberg
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  • Feb 3, 2009, 256 pages
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  Sign Language & Deaf Culture

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