Name: Deaf poet and illustrator go back to school with picture book - BBC News
Uploaded: 2021-03-02T18:15:07.000Z
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The bear just like myself and just like Polly

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Gerund

stepping out of St Bartholomew's Hospital.

Dad Bear has a hard time waking me up in the morning.

Two - the bed rumbles like a large empty tummy.

Three - the windows by the bed tremble. Four - Dad Bear takes one heavy step forward.

The idea for Can Bear Ski? Was a kind of an autobiographical one.

In that my parents didn't know I was deaf until I was around six or seven years old.

so deafness has been there from the word go for me.

From the other side, I am now a deaf mother and I have children who might inherit it.

the bear wouldn't be able to sign until he was 11 years old.

Can I ask you which school that was? That you went to?

So how did that make you feel when you found out that he went to the same school

Do you think you would like to write a book like this in the future?

Because I can't find a book that has deaf characters in it because they are so

Because it is actually fun to read deaf things. If there's writing with no deaf character it makes

me feel a little bit bored but if I see like a deaf book I just,

straight away, take it and read straight away.

I eat the last of my porridge. Time for school.

Dad Bear talks a lot on our way to school.

There have been historically too many stories in which disability is shown as this thing

Suddenly maybe the disabled child or someone with a disfigurement is

suddenly cured or healed and that is meant as this kind of sentimental, feel good moment.

And actually that is a huge disservice to the reality of what it is to live with a disability.

To even know what these little robot mice in my ears, I have a three-year-old

and a six-year-old and they're like: 'Why do you squeak, when I cuddle you mum?'

To be doing, to be making a book with them there watching me do the pictures

has sort of showed it to them in a very normal way.

My six-year-old couldn't wait to get to see the audiologist.

So I can't wait to think it will be in waiting rooms, you know when they are about to go in,

and they have the books there, it needs to be there so the parent can look through

with them, yeah, that would be wonderful.