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Oxford handbook of deaf studies, language, and education /

Oxford handbook of deaf studies, language, and education / Deaf studies, language, and education edited by Marc Marschark and Patricia Elizabeth Spencer. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2003. - xvi, 505 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributors; Introduction; PART 1: EDUCATIONAL ISSUES; 1. Perspectives on the History of Deaf Education; 2. Demographic and Achievement Characteristics of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students; 3. Curriculum: Cultural and Communicative Contexts; 4. Educational Consequences of Alternative School Placements; 5. Early Intervention: Current Approaches to Family-Centered Programming; 6. Educational Programming for Deaf Children with Multiple Disabilities: Accommodating Special Needs; PART 2: LITERACY AND LITERACY EDUCATION; 7. Processes and Components of Reading; 8. Approaches To Teaching Reading; 9. Writing: Characteristics, Instruction, and Assessment; 10. Bilingualism and Literacy; PART 3: CULTURAL, SOCIAL, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES; 11. Deaf Communities; 12. Peer Interactions of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children; 13. Social and Emotional Development of Deaf Children: Family, School, and Program Effects; 14. Parent-Infant Interactions: A Transactional Approach to Understanding the Development of Deaf Infants; 15. Mental Health and Deaf Adults; PART 4: LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; 16. The Development of American Sign Language and Manually Coded English Systems; 17. Development of Spoken Language by Deaf Children; 18. Expressing Meaning: From Communicative Intent to Building a Lexicon; 19. The Role of Cued Speech in Language Development of Deaf Children; 20. Formal and Informal Approaches to the Language Assessment of Deaf Children; 21. Assessing Children's Proficiency in Natural Signed Languages; PART 5: SIGNED LANGUAGES; 22. Origins of Sign Languages; 23. Sign Language Structures; 24. Modality and The Structure of Language: Sign Languages versus Signed Systems; 25. Interpreters and Interpreter Education; 26. The Neural Systems Underlying Sign Language; PART 6: HEARING AND SPEECH PERCEPTION; 27. Speech Perception and Spoken Word Recognition; 28. Advances in the Genetics of Deafness; 29. Technologies for Communication: Status and Trends; 30. Screening and Assessment of Hearing Loss In Infants; 31. Cochlear Implants: Issues and Implications; PART 7: COGNITIVE CORRELATES AND CONSEQUENCES OF DEAFNESS; 32. Intellectual Assessment of Deaf People: A Critical Review of Core Concepts and Issues; 33. Cognitive Functioning In Deaf Adults and Children; 34. Working Memory, Neuroscience, and Language: Evidence from Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals; Epilogue--What We Know, What We Don't Know, and What We Should Know; Author Index; Subject Index


Includes sign language.

9780195189131

2002010496


Deaf--Social conditions.
Deaf--Education.
Deaf--Means of communication.
Sign language.

HV2380 / .O88 2003

362.42 MAR S