Product Description: Holly Elliott was familiar with forging new paths. As she describes in her memoir, Teach Me to Love Myself, she was probably the first professionally trained deaf counselor-therapist in the United States. In her initial position as intern and then staff member at the University of California Center on Deafness, she became an advocate of total communication-a combination of sign language, lip-reading and oral competency that was a new horizon for rehabilitation therapy for the deaf...read more

Product Description: In her memoir, Holly Elliott relates the painful but ultimately triumphant experiences that led her to take up a new career in rehabilitation counseling for the deaf at mid-life. Born in 1920, she had an unusual education in all the ports of call to which her father, a chaplain in the U...read more