This book is a comprehensive guide to the questions and challenges involved in raising and educating a deaf child. The second edition will bring readers up to date on some of the dramatic changes that have happened in the field over the past eight years, including Universal Newborn Hearing Screening, cochlear implants, increasing emphasis on inclusive education for deaf children, high-stakes testing, and significant advances in research concerning language and learning by deaf children (e.g., theory of mind, visuospatial ...
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This book is a comprehensive guide to the questions and challenges involved in raising and educating a deaf child. The second edition will bring readers up to date on some of the dramatic changes that have happened in the field over the past eight years, including Universal Newborn Hearing Screening, cochlear implants, increasing emphasis on inclusive education for deaf children, high-stakes testing, and significant advances in research concerning language and learning by deaf children (e.g., theory of mind, visuospatial processing, and cognitive underpinnings of educational interventions).
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