Zustand: As new. When Young Dr Bruce Shepherd married Annette Hooker in Sydney in 1961, they expected to have a conventional happy marriage and a large family. The births of two deaf children changed their lives forever. The were faced with the problem of educating them at a time when most deaf children were segregated in boarding schools.This book tells the story of how the Shepherds eventually succeeded in educating their deaf and daughter and son, and then used their experience to help hundreds of other deaf children and their parents is an absorbing story.