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Synopsis
Educational and Developmental Aspects of Deafness details the ongoing revolution in the education of deaf children. More than 20 researchers contributed their discoveries in anthropology, education, linguistics, psychology, sociology, and other major disciplines, with special concentration upon the education of deaf children.
Divided into two parts on education at home and in school, this incisive book documents breakthroughs such as the public's interest in sign language, the increasing availability of interpreters, the growing perception of deafness as a social condition, not a pathology, and other positive trends. It is unique as the first purely research-based text and reference point for further study of the education of deaf children.
Table of Contents
Research in educational aspects of deafness -- Conceptual model for academic achievement -- Cultural considerations in the education of deaf children -- Early literacy development of deaf children -- School placement and least restrictive environment -- Consumer motivated research to development -- Factors predictive of school achievement -- Cognitive theory guiding research in literacy and deafness -- Home and classroom communication -- Intellectual assessment -- Research on developmental aspects of deafness -- Parenting a deaf child -- Impact of childhood hearing loss on the family -- Expression of affect by deaf and hearing infants -- Directiveness in mother-infant interactions -- Mastery motivation in deaf and hearing infants -- Attachment behavior of deaf children with deaf parents -- Symbolic play behavior of deaf and hearing toddlers -- Comparison of deaf students in Israel, Denmark, and the United States -- Responses to loss of hearing in later life.