Voicing The Voiceless PDF Download

Your voice can change the world.Is your voice powerful?It can be.When you speak, your voice can have purpose, and the words you choose to use can have meaning. Your words can make someone laugh or cry. You can motivate, inspire or teach using your voice, too.But what if you don't have a voice?Forty million Americans who have communication disorders don't have the ability or strength to make their voice heard as easily as an able-voiced person. However, they find ways to overcome their barriers every day and make a difference.In this book, find twenty memorable short stories about characters who speak with authority even though they battle adversity with a communication disorder.This anthology was written to bring awareness to communication disorders and help readers find patience when working with people with these difficulties. It's also to highlight that people who face these barriers are still highly intelligent contributing members to society.The fun part in reading these stories is predicting each character's outcome.Meet a few of the many characters: A slave who practices medicine gets the chance to leave his village and speak out about the slavery they fight every day.Caroline, a deaf girl who leaves home for college and discovers a secret about her hearing loss, must confront her mother.Lea, a woman who's granted a powerful gift, makes choices that affect the entire world.Anna, a woman who breaths voices into the mute, must make a choice: heal the cruel prime minister's son or die.When Alexa sees kids bullying a stuttering boy, she offers to help the boy. If only she could give him her voice.Eli, a young man who speaks twenty-one languages, must stop the political world from mandating an order to adopt a one-only universal language. All he has to do is break into the museum and steal one book. Will he do it