Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Contributors -- Educating deaf students in a global context : harry knoors and marc marschark -- A changing world for deaf learners -- Being a deaf student : changes in characteristics and needs / Sue Archbold -- When you're not average, be (come) excellent : barriers and opportunities for deaf students / Corrie Tijsseling -- Responding to cultural and linguistic diversity among deaf and hard of hearing learners / Greg Leigh and Kathryn Crowe -- Research on language development : discourses on learning and messages to family support after cochlear implantation / Marieke Bruin -- Language, literacy, and numeracy -- Awareness of hong kong sign language and manually coded chinese by deaf students in a sign bilingual and co-enrollment setting : a hong kong case study / Gladys Tang, Chris, Kun-Man Yiu, and Scholastica Lam -- Literacy and deaf and hard-of-hearing students : research and practice / Susan R. Easterbrooks and Michella Maiorana-Basas -- Developing numeracy in individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing / Claudia M. Pagliaro -- Language assessment of deaf learners / Rosalind Herman -- Issues of access and validity in standardized academic assessments for students who are deaf or hard of hearing / Stephanie W. Cawthon -- Cognition, social, and emotional development -- Deaf children¿s executive functions : from research to practice? / Daan Hermans, Brigitte Vugs, Lian van Berkel, and Harry Knoors -- Social-cognition for learning as a deaf student / Gary Morgan -- Social relations of deaf learners : important resources for socio-emotional well-being and academic success / Manfred Hintermair -- Reciprocity in school peer relationships of deaf and hard-of-hearing early adolescents: promoting empowerment / Nina Wolters and Jet Isarin -- Stress among children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families / Anat Zaidman-Zait -- The role of the environment in children's emotion socialization : the case of deaf and hard-of-hearing children / Carolien Rieffe, Anouk P. Netten, Evelien Broekhof, Guida Veiga -- Social relations, mental health, and deaf learners : approaches to intervention / Johannes Fellinger and Daniel Holzinger -- Technology for learning and development -- Enhancing emergent literacy in preschool deaf and hard-of-hearing children through interactive reading / Evelien Dirks and Loes Wauters -- Language skills and literacy of deaf children in the era of cochlear implantation : suggestions for teaching through e-learning visual environments / Maria Cristina Caselli, Pasquale Rinaldi, Daniela Onofrio and Elena Tomasuolo -- Emotionweb: from fundamental research to a functional tool for professionals / Karin Wiefferink, Meinou de Vries, and Lizet Ketelaar -- Benefits of technology-enhanced learning for deaf and hard-of-hearing students / Eliane Segers and Ludo Verhoeven -- Click and start learning! innovative development programs for professionals / Chantal Gervedink Nijhuis and Arie Terpstra -- Learning and educational context -- Enhancing academic and social outcomes : balancing individual, family, and school assets and risks for deaf and hard-of-hearing students in general education / Shirin D. Antia -- Classroom adaptations for effective learning by deaf students / Leo De Raeve -- Curriculum design in dutch deaf education - annet de klerk, connie fortgens, and annelies van der eijk -- Re-envisioning learning and teaching in deaf education : towards new transactions between research and practice / Ruth Swanwick -- Epilogue -- Educating deaf learners in the 21st century : what we know and what we need to know / Marc Marschark and Harry Knoors -- Index.