Secrets from My Silent Eden - Hardcover

Ogden, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1618636057 ISBN 13: 9781618636058

Publisher: Bookstand Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Secrets from My Silent Eden is the inspirational story of Paul Ogden, Professor Emeritus, Deaf Studies/Deaf Education Programs at California State University, Fresno, who discovers that communication is the key to transforming relationships with family, friends, and God. His fifteen communication secrets will also lead you to an abundant life and a thriving faith.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul W. Ogden has spent a lifetime exploring what it means to be an effective communicator. He is an educator, author, mentor, scholar, and advocate for the deaf and hard of hearing. Born deaf into a hearing family, Paul is the youngest of four sons, including one who was also born deaf. Paul grew up in the South during the tumultuous years of the Civil Rights movement. As a boy, he met Martin Luther King Jr. in the Ogden home and was old enough to appreciate his father's bravery and compassion when Dunbar Ogden led members of the “Little Rock Nine” through a white mob to Central High School.Paul earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computers from Antioch College and master's and doctoral degrees in educational psychology and deaf education from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. For more than thirty years, he has served as a professor of Deaf Studies at California State University, Fresno, where he is currently Professor Emeritus. He uses his knowledge and talent to teach students to be advocates for the deaf, serve as a support system for parents, and be a resource for children, families, and other key individuals in the lives of deaf and hard-of-hearing children.Paul was named Outstanding Professor of the Year at Fresno State and placed second overall for the same award for the California State University system comprised of 23 campuses.Among his major publications are The Silent Garden: Understanding Your Hearing Impaired Child; Chelsea: The Story of a Signal Dog; The Silent Garden: Raising Your Deaf Child, and El Jardin Silencioso: Criando a Su Hijo Sordo, a Spanish translation of the first five chapters of The Silent Garden. Gallaudet University Press lists both volumes of The Silent Garden as classics. Among Paul's recent honors is the Lifetime Achievement Award, conferred in 2012 at the annual conference of California Educators of the Deaf. Paul lives in Fresno with his wife, Anne Keenan Ogden, one of the first members of the deaf community to become a registered nurse. She retired as a certified registered rehabilitation nurse in 2011 after forty years of service.

Review:

Wise, thoughtful, helpful, entertaining, winning, Paul becomes a friend through these pages, showing how faith has helped him in the thick and thin of life and how it can make a difference for you. --Rick Hamlin, executive editor of Guideposts magazine

Paul Ogden shares his rich and deep spiritual journey and in the process teaches new insights about how powerful communication is in our daily lives. This book captures new insights about the depth of our communication with each other and the potential for enriching our lives if we only take the time to reflect on how we communicate with each other. --John D. Welty, President Emeritus, California State University, Fresno

About this edition

• Publisher: Bookstand Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1618636057
• ISBN 13: 9781618636058
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300