How Deaf Children Learn: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know
Author(s): Marc Marschark
In this invaluable guide, renowned authorities Marc Marschark and Peter Hauser highlight important new advances in scientific and educational research that can help parents and teachers of students with significant hearing loss. The authors stress that deaf children have strengths and needs that are sometimes dramatically different from those who can hear. Consequently, if deaf students are to have full academic access and optimal educational outcomes, it is essential that parents and teachers learn to recognize these differences and adjust their teaching methods to them. Marschark and Hauser explain how the fruits of research conducted over the last several years can markedly improve educational practices at home and in the classroom, and they offer innovative strategies that parents and teachers can use to promote learning in their children. The result is a lively, accessible volume that sheds light on what it means to be a deaf learner and that provides a wealth of advice on how we can best support their language development, social skills, and academic success.
General Information
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- : Oxford University Press Inc
- : Oxford University Press Inc
- : 0.382
- : 08 December 2011
- : United States
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Marc Marschark
- : Hardback
- : 192
- : Illustrations
More About The Product
How Deaf Children Learn represents an excellent beginning step in understanding deaf children, their learning, and most beneficial educational situations. Quick, eminently readable, and realistic, it is a book from which readers will absorb a great deal of valuable information. As a professional in the field of special education, I wish there were a book like this covering each disability! APA Review
Marc Marschark is a Professor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, where he is Director of the Center for Education Research Partnerships. He has written or edited over 20 books and published over 100 articles and chapters. His current research focuses on relations of language and learning by deaf children and adults in formal and informal educational settings.
Peter C. Hauser is an Associate Professor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. A deaf clinical neuropsychologist, he is the director of the Deaf Studies Laboratory (DSL) where he supervises deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing students who obtain hands-on experience developing, running, and analyzing experimental psychological studies.
1. WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT; WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE?; ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON EDUCATING DEAF STUDENTS; USING THIS BOOK; NOTES, CONFESSIONS, AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 2. INTRODUCTION TO DEAF CHILDREN; NAVIGATING ISSUES; THOSE WHO IGNORE HISTORY..; TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (OR NOT); DIFFERENCES VERSUS DEFICIENCIES; FINAL WORDS; 3. ON HEARING AND NOT HEARING; UNDERSTANDING HEARING; HEARING AIDS; EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FINAL WORDS; 4. LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION; UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE; FROM COMMUNICATION TO LANGUAGE; SIGNED LANGUAGES AND VISUAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SPOKEN COMMUNICATION; FINAL WORDS; 5. FAMILY AND PEERS: FOUNDATIONS OF LEARNING; EDUCATION BEGINS AT HOME; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS: FOUNDATIONS FOR LEARNING; EARLY INTERVENTION; MOVING FROM HOME TO SCHOOL; SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL GROWTH DURING THE SCHOOL YEARS; LAST WORDS; 6. DEAF COGNITION; ARE DEAF CHILDREN AS SMART AS HEARING CHILDREN?; DO DEAF INDIVIDUALS SEE BETTER?; DOES SIGN LANGUAGE HAVE AN EFFECT ON WORDS ABOUT
