The Silent Book - A Deaf Family and the Disappearing Australian - Irish Sign Language

• You are warmly invited to the launch of ‘The Silent Book’
  By Bernadette T Wallis
  An engrossing story, both deeply personal and historical, of the disappearing Australian-Irish sign language told through the experience of Bernadette’s own Deaf family.
  

‘The Silent Book’ will be revelatory for most of us as we learn the history of a “threatened” language once so vital in Australia. It is a fascinating tale in diverse ways: in its closeness to the colonial and rural context of its protagonists, its respect for indigenous naming and knowledge of that same landscape, its careful introduction of the reader into a chronology of thinking about deafness and ways of educating deaf children……
Margaret Coffey, Broadcaster and Journalist Melbourne