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  • Raising and Educating a Deaf Child

    A Comprehensive Guide to the Choices, Controversies, and Decisions Faced by Parents and Educators

    Deaf children are not hearing children who can't hear, and having a deaf child is not analogous to having a hearing child who can't hear. Beyond any specific effects of hearing loss, deaf children are far more diverse than their hearing age-mates. A lack of access to language, limited incidental learning and social interactions, as well as the possibility of secondary disabilities, mean that deaf ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • How Deaf Children Learn

    What Parents and Teachers Need to Know

    Series series Perspectives on Deafness
    How can parents and teachers most effectively support the language development and academic success of deaf and hard-of-hearing children? Will using sign language interfere with learning spoken language? Should deaf children be placed in classrooms with hearing children? Are traditional methods of teaching subjects such as reading and math to hearing children appropriate for deaf learners? As many ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • How Deaf Children Learn

    What Parents and Teachers Need to Know

    Series series Perspectives on Deafness
    How can parents and teachers most effectively support the language development and academic success of deaf and hard-of-hearing children? Will using sign language interfere with learning spoken language? Should deaf children be placed in classrooms with hearing children? Are traditional methods of teaching subjects such as reading and math to hearing children appropriate for deaf learners? As many ... Read more

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  • Educating Deaf Students

    From Research to Practice

    Over the past decade there has been a significant increase in interest from educators and the general public about deafness, special education, and the development of children with special needs. The education of deaf children in the United States has been seen as a remarkable success story around the world, even while it continues to engender domestic debate. In Educating Deaf Students: From ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Teaching Deaf Learners

    Psychological and Developmental Foundations

    Series series Perspectives on Deafness
    Teaching Deaf Learners: Psychological and Developmental Foundations explores how deaf students (children and adolescents) learn and the conditions that support their reaching their full cognitive potential -- or not. Beginning with an introduction to teaching and learning of both deaf and hearing students, Knoors and Marschark take an ecological approach to deaf education, emphasizing the need to ... Read more

    $110.69 USD

  • The Deaf Child in the Family and at School

    Essays in Honor of Kathryn P. Meadow-Orlans

    This book presents chapters by many eminent researchers and interventionists, all of whom address the development of deaf and hard-of-hearing children in the context of family and school. A variety of disciplines and perspectives are provided in order to capture the complexity of factors affecting development of these children in their diverse environments. Consistent with current theory and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Deaf Education Beyond the Western World

    Context, Challenges, and Prospects

    Series series Perspectives on Deafness
    If teachers want to educate deaf learners effectively, they have to apply evidence-informed methods and didactics with the needs of individual deaf students in mind. Education in general -- and education for deaf learners in particular -- is situated in broader societal contexts, where what works within the Western world may be quite different from what works beyond the Western world. By exploring ... Read more

    $96.29 USD

  • Psychological Perspectives on Deafness

    Volume II

    This edited volume picks up where Psychological Perspectives on Deafness, Volume 1 ended. Composed of review chapters that reflect cutting-edge views from well-known international researchers within the field, this book surveys issues within the field of deafness, such as cognition, learning disabilities, social development, language development, and psychopathology. It also highlights the many ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Advances in the Sign Language Development of Deaf Children

    Series series Perspectives on Deafness
    The use of sign language has a long history. Indeed, humans' first languages may have been expressed through sign. Sign languages have been found around the world, even in communities without access to formal education. In addition to serving as a primary means of communication for Deaf communities, sign languages have become one of hearing students' most popular choices for second-language study. ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Sign Language Interpreting and Interpreter Education

    Directions for Research and Practice

    Series series Perspectives on Deafness
    More the 1.46 million people in the United States have hearing losses in sufficient severity to be considered deaf; another 21 million people have other hearing impairments. For many deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, sign language and voice interpreting is essential to their participation in educational programs and their access to public and private services. However, there is less than half ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • Evidence-Based Practice in Educating Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students

    Series series Professional Perspectives on Deafness: Evidence and Applications
    Debates about methods of supporting language development and academic skills of deaf or hard-of-hearing children have waxed and waned for more than 100 years: Will using sign language interfere with learning to use spoken language or does it offer optimal access to communication for deaf children? Does placement in classrooms with mostly hearing children enhance or impede academic and social ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • Co-Enrollment in Deaf Education

    Series series Perspectives on Deafness
    Co-enrollment programming in deaf education refers to classrooms in which a critical mass of deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students is included in a classroom containing mainly hearing students and which is taught by both a mainstream teacher and a teacher of the deaf. It thus offers full access to both DHH and hearing students in the classroom through "co-teaching" and avoids academic ... Read more

    $88.19 USD