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Books In Sync Recognizes Author Bainy B. Cyrus For A Second Year Author Bainy B. Cyrus
was born in Norfolk, VA with a severe-to-profound hearing impairment andattended Clarke School for oral education at age five. After seven years there, she came home for goodand attended regular school without mainstreaming. With the help of note takers and private tutors,Bainy graduated from Virginia Tech in 1985 with a bachelor’s degree in landscape horticulture. Sheworked as a landscape designer for nearly 20 years before deciding to change careers. In 2004 Bainyachieved a master’s degree in counseling from Old Dominion University. She has worked as a job coachfor Hired Hands and Associates since 2006, assisting persons with disabilities in competitiveemployment. Bainy lives in Norfolk with her hearing husband Steve, sharing their interests in hiking,biking, gardening, and RVing.
Bainy Cyrus's All Eyes: A Memoir of Deafnesstells about her life growing up in both the deaf and
the hearing world. Her first bookDeaf Women's Lives: Three Self-Portraitsis a co-authored withEileen Katz, Celeste Cheyney, and Frances M. Parsons.*************************Featuring:All Eyes-A Memoir of DeafnessbyBainy B. Cyrus
In Bainy Cyrus's All Eyes, she tells about her life growing up in boththe deaf and the hearing world. Bainy first attended Clarke School forthe Deaf in Northampton, MA, where she learned to speak andstruggled with language development. It was typical for a deaf child tocope with delayed English language in the 1960s and 1970s. Afterseven years at Clarke, Bainy began to face difficulties in regularschool but eventually overcame obstacles in the hearing world, attimes with humor. She also relates the importance of her lifelongfriendships with two girls Cheryl and Diane she met at Clarke, andhow the different paths that they took influenced her as an adult.
About the Author:
Bainy Cyrus is a graduate of Virginia Tech and earned a Masters in
2Counseling from Old Dominion University.
Awards:
“All Eyes” is a winner of 2010 Readers’ Favorite Silver Award and 2010 Premier Silver Award in thememoir/autobiography category. It also entered alone – from an anthology of “Deaf Women’s Lives:Three Self-Portraits” - in the 2006 Eric Hoffler Award and won the notable award in the health/self-helpcategory. Keep in mind that the current self-publication of “All Eyes” is about 95% original with a fewupdates.
Book Details:
Publisher: CreateSpace (May 1, 2010)ISBN-10: 1450540317ISBN-13: 978-1450540315Language: EnglishPaperback: 132 Pages
Genre: MemoirAmazon Customer Reviews:http://www.amazon.com/All-Eyes-Deafness-Bainy-Cyrus/product-reviews/1450540317/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1 Print List Price: $11.95Amazon Purchase Link:http://www.amazon.com/All-Eyes-Deafness-Bainy-Cyrus/dp/1450540317%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAI677S5DCK5W54FDQ%26tag%3Damazonshowcase20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1450540317 Format: Kindle EditionFile Size: 443 KBSold by: Amazon Digital ServicesLanguage: EnglishASIN: B004NSV4DWText-to-Speech: EnabledLending: EnabledKindle Price $2.99Kindle Purchase Link:http://www.amazon.com/All-Eyes-ebook/dp/B004NSV4DW/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&qid=1330181411&sr=1-2-fkmr0 *************************Another Title:Deaf Women's Lives-Three Self-Portraitsby Bainy Cyrus, Eileen Katz, Celeste Cheyney, FrancesM. Parsons
Three deaf women with widely varying stories share their experiences in this unique collection,revealing the vast differences in the circumstances of their lives, but also striking similarities. In BainyCyrus’s All Eyes, she vividly describes her life as a young child who was taught using the oral method
3at the Clarke School for the Deaf in Northampton, MA. Heraccount of the methods used (for example, repeating the sameword over and over again, as many as 35 times), animates theextraordinary amount of work performed by deaf children tolearn to read and speak. Cyrus also relates the importance of her lifelong friendships with two girls she met at Clarke, andhow the different paths that they took influenced her as anadult.Eileen Katz’s story, as told to Celeste Cheyney, offers aglimpse into a deaf girl’s life a generation before Cyrus. InMaking Sense of It All: The Battle of Britain through aJewish Deaf Girl’s Eyes, Katz juxtaposes the gradual learningof the words who, what, where, and why with the confusingevents of 1938 to 1941. As she and her fellow studentsgrasped the meanings of these questions, they also realized the threat from the Nazi air attacks uponEngland. Katz also understood the compound jeopardy that she and her classmates faced by being bothdeaf and Jewish.In contrast to the predominantly oral orientation of Cyrus and Katz, Frances M. Parsons writes of a year-long journey overseas in 1976 to lecture about Total Communication. Parsons traveled to Iran, India,Ceylon, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, the Philippines, Australia, and sevencountries in Africa to teach administrators, teachers, and deaf students to communicate using sign,speech reading, writing, and any other means available. Her harrowing and fascinating anecdotes detailvisits to ministries of education, schools, hospitals, clinics, palaces, hovels for the poorest of the poor,and all kinds of residential homes and apartments. Taken together, her travels testify to the aptness of her title I Dared!The combined effect of these three Deaf women’s stories, despite the variation in their experiences,reveals the common thread that weaves through the lives of all deaf individuals.
About The Authors:
Bainy Cyrus is a counselor for mainstreamed deaf and disabled students in Tidewater, VA.Eileen Katz teaches sign language to twelfth graders at a hearing girls’ yeshiva and tells Jewish storiesto a senior citizen Deaf club in Brooklyn, NY.Celeste Cheyney has worked for nearly 40 years as a teacher at J47, the American Sign Language andEnglish school, and as a mentor for new teachers in various programs for people who are hard of hearingin New York City, NY.Frances M. Parsons is retired Associate Professor of History of Art and Coordinator of InternationalCollections at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC.
Books Details:
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press; 1st edition (March 15, 2005)ISBN-10: 1563683210ISBN-13: 978-1563683213
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