Raising and Educating a Deaf Child: A Comprehensive Guide to the Choices, Controversies, and Decisions Faced by Parents and Educators

Raising and Educating a Deaf Child: A Comprehensive Guide to the Choices, Controversies, and Decisions Faced by Parents and Educators

by Marc Marschark
Raising and Educating a Deaf Child: A Comprehensive Guide to the Choices, Controversies, and Decisions Faced by Parents and Educators

Raising and Educating a Deaf Child: A Comprehensive Guide to the Choices, Controversies, and Decisions Faced by Parents and Educators

by Marc Marschark

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Overview


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 children face a variety of challenges in language, social, and academic domains.

In recent years, technological innovations such as digital hearing aids and cochlear implants have improved hearing and the possibility of spoken language for many deaf learners, but parents, teachers, and other professionals are just now coming to recognize the cognitive, experiential, and social-emotional differences between deaf and hearing children. Sign languages and schools and programs for deaf learners thus remain an important part of the continuum of services needed for this population. Understanding the unique strengths and needs of deaf children is the key.

Now in its third edition, Marc Marschark's Raising and Educating a Deaf Child, which has helped a countless number of families, offers a comprehensively clear, evidence-based guide to the choices, controversies, and decisions faced by parents and teachers of deaf children today.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780190643522
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 11/30/2017
Edition description: Comprehens
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile: 1480L (what's this?)

About the Author

Marc Marschark is a Professor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a college of Rochester Institute of Technology, where he directs the Center for Education Research Partnerships. His primary interest is in relations among language, learning, and cognition; current research focuses on such relations among deaf children and adults in formal and informal educational settings.

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: A Deaf Child in the Family

Chapter 2: Practical Aspects of Being Deaf

Chapter 3: Communication With Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children

Chapter 4: Early Interactions: The Roots of Childhood

Chapter 5: Language Development and Language Use

Chapter 6: Going to School

Chapter 7: Learning to Read and Write

Chapter 8: How Deaf Children Learn (and Why They Sometimes Don't)

Chapter 9: Living in the Real World

Chapter 10: Where Do We Go From Here?
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