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A Boy Named Broccoli

How I Came to Fall in Love with a Classroom of Deaf Students

by Laurel Robinson

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John Lennon once said, “Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.” As I look back at what I have written for this memoir, A Boy Named Broccoli, I see this paradox repeating throughout. For example, during my teen years, Music was a huge part of my life – I wrote my own scores, I played the guitar, and I traveled in the singing group, Up With People. Although, I kept asking myself, what am I going to do with the rest of my life? What really matters? Then, one fateful day in 1977, I met and conversed with my first deaf student and threw every other career idea out the window. I decided I would become a Teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

Deafness? Sign language? Interpreting? What did I know about these? I’d thought. Yet, meeting and connecting with that young student had changed how I thought about the world and eventually changed who I am. Now, after 39 years as a Teacher of Deaf and Hard of Hearing, I still have passion for my work, and this work can often bring me to tears of happiness. I love my students, and I love that they have given me permission to share their stories—both the tough times and those that made me smile.

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Paperback
Format: 6 x 9 Color Paperback, 243 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (Jun 30, 2022)
ISBN10: 1977223729
ISBN13: 9781977223722
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators

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Laurel RobinsonLaurel Robinson has her MA in teaching Deaf and Hard of Hearing students,and she has taught for the past 39 years. She works across all grade levels, has taught most subjects, as she has supported her students’ language. Laurel lives in Denver, CO, with her husband, Joe, and their Golden Retriever.
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