Emma is scared. It is the first day of school and she wonders if she will like her new school and her new teacher.
Will the kids like her or make fun of her because she is deaf? Emma loves music and creates concerts in her mind. Can Emma
use her love of music to teach her classmates how she hears the world?
Mary Jane
Hayes was moved to write this story about how deaf children are misunderstood after her lifelong friendship with a profoundly
deaf schoolmate. Emma’s House of Sound is her first book and is an exploration into the world of a profoundly deaf child.
Mary Jane or MJ as she is known to fellow writers and friends has adapted Emma’s House of Sound, at the request of Limelight
Theater in St. Augustine into a three-act play.
