Table of Contents

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

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"This handbook is a 'must have' resource for researchers, educators, linguists, clinicians--indeed, for anyone involved in studying or affecting the lives of deaf children and adults. The range of topics is outstanding, the chapters cover both historical and contemporary work, and the writing is lucid. It will soon be difficult to imagine how the field ever managed without it!" --Lynn S. Liben, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University"A visit to bookshelves in search of material relating to deaf studies can often be disappointingMarschark and Spencer have now delivered a long overdue and much-needed comprehensive review of the current state of deaf studiesThis work may well stand for years as essential reading in the study of deaf education."--CHOICE, J.A. LeClair"The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies, Language and Education is a resource that recognizes the physical condition of deafness and the social, cultural and linguistic reality of Deaf life. The diverse group of contributors represents the cross-discipline perspectives and interconnected issues that inform and shape deaf studies today. This handbook will serve as a source of information for those in the field, students and families. I applaud the editors for compiling such a comprehensive and timely tool."--I. King Jordan, President, Gallaudet University