{"product_id":"9781935052081","title":"Teach Me to Love Myself: Memoir of a Deafened Counselor\/Therapist","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. She was one of the first individuals with inner-ear nerve degeneration to receive a prototype cochlear implant and, several years later, one of the first to have an implant upgraded. Finally, in a more general sense of pathbreaking, she made a courageous career shift at mid-life. After twenty-five years of marriage and child-rearing, she accepted her deafness and embarked on a retraining that eventually led to a distinguished professional career.\u003cbr\u003eHolly Elliott was an unusual role model for women of her time, and still speaks to our twenty-first-century experience.","brand":"White River Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47062340370672,"sku":"9781935052081","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781935052081_p0.jpg?v=1763655060","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781935052081","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}