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REVIEWS Growing Together: Information for Parents of Hearing-Impaired Children, National Information Center on Deafness, approximately 98 pp. of resource materials and topic sheets, $6 paperback, Gallaudet University, 800 Florida Avenue NE, Washington, D.C. 20002,1987. This compilation of resource materials and topic sheets is the result of a joint project of the National Information Center on Deafness and the Center for Curriculum Development , Training and Outreach, both at Gallaudet University. Prefaced with a letter to parents and a table of contents, this packet addresses communicative, educational, legal, medical and social issues associated with being the parent of a deaf child. The information is factually correct, written dispassionately in easily understandable language. Some of the resource materials are geared toward children, which can be useful for parents helping their other children understand a deaf sibling. The topic sheets are in a question and answer format, featuring the questions which parents of deaf children ask most commonly. The fact sheets can be ordered separately at low or no cost, also, and an order form is included . This material, as a package, is an excellent resource for families who have a recently diagnosed deaf child and for beginning counselors-and teachers-in-training, although it is primarily written for "new" parents. The fact sheets for children could also become a helpful resource for deaf awareness in integrated classrooms. C. lane Akamatsu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan Sexual Abuse! What Is It? Alice LaBarre, Karen R. Hinkley and Mary F. Nelson, 71 pp., $6.95 plus postage paperback, St. Paul-Ramsey Foundation, 640 Jackson Street, St. Paul, Minnesota 55101,1986. This easy-to-understand explanation of sexual abuse should be read by every hearing-impaired person. The vocabulary is accurate and comprehensive. Clear pictures amplify the straight-forward message: "Sexual abuse hurts people and is against the law." Sexual Abuse! What Is It? was written by counselors at the Hearing Impaired Health and Wellness Services of the St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center and has been used in therapy with clients who know the emotional and physical pain of sexual abuse. The authors, in welcoming readers, express hope that the information included in this manual will keep hearing-impaired people safe and help prevent sexual abuse. This book merits wide distribution. My deaf daughter reviewed the manual with me. Together we highly recommend this excellent explanation of a problem that must not be ignored. Sexual Abuse! What Is It? should be widely read. It clearly says: Sexual abuse is wrong and need not be tolerated. It belongs in every school library and the home of everyone who cares about a child or adult who is hearing impaired. Bonnie Fairchild American Society for Deaf Children Wilmington, Delaware and Joyce Gairns Student Gallaudet University Washington, D.C. My First Book oÃ- Sign, Pamela J. Baker, 76 pp., $12.95 hardcover , Kendall Green Publications, Gallaudet University Press, and I can Sign My ABCs, Susan Gibbons Chaplin, 52 pp., $8.95 hardcover, 800 Florida Avenue NE, Washington, D.C. 20002. In My First Book of Sign by Pamela Baker and J Can Sign My ABCs by Susan Gibbons Chaplin, the reader will find a toddler 's introduction to sign language and the manual alphabet . My First Book of Sign is imaginatively illustrated by Patricia Gillen, a rarity among sign dictionaries. Another delight is the particular care Ms. Baker took in choosing vocabulary words that are frequently used in communication between young children and their parents. This book contains an easily understood index to clarify sign and fingershape discriptions . Õ Can Sign My ABCs by Susan Gibbons Chaplin is a "just for beginners" book pictorially illuminating the manual alphabet . One word and its sign are portrayed with each letter of the alphabet. All of the illustrations by Laura McCaul are brightly colored to attract the curious toddler and preschooler . Of particular help is the handshape format which is the same size as the human hand. This allows beginning signers to form and correct their manual alphabet with ease. Both books would be an asset to any young child beginning to sign, plus the families, neighbors and friends of any hearing -impaired youngster. Mary Lynn...

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