Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Education of deaf children at the turn of the 21st century / Greg Leigh and Des Power
  • Part one: Contemporary issues for all learners
  • Reviewing the past, assessing the present, and projecting the future / Roberta R. Davila
  • Developing deaf children or deaf children developing? / Mark Marschark
  • Educating deaf students with multiple disabilities / Jan van Dijk
  • Is it time to look beyond teachers' signing behavior? / C. Tane Akamatsu, David Stewart, and Connie Mayer
  • Good practice in deaf education / Susan Gregory, Elizabeth Andrews, Wendy McCracken, Steve Powers, and Linda Watson
  • Part two: The Early years
  • Earlier identification for earlier intervention / Christine Yoshinaga-Itano
  • Issues around supporting families with young deaf children / Linda Watson, Susan Gregory, Wendy McCracken, and Stephen Powers
  • The Power of hearing, habilitation, and the home / Judith Simser
  • Cochlear implantation and children: influencing education choices? / Sue Archbold
  • Future directions in early education for deaf children and their families / Barbara Bodner-Johnson, Marilyn Sass-Lehrer, Janice C. Gatty, and Jan Hafer.
  • Part three: The School years
  • Bridging literacy: Integrating ASL and English into the language arts / Cynthia Neese Bailes
  • Educating deaf children in two languages / Charlotte Evans
  • Making inclusion work: improving educational outcomes for deaf and hard of hearing students in the regular classroom / Loretta R. Giorcelli
  • Co-enrollment: an effective answer to the mainstream debacle / Carl J. Kirchner
  • Supporting children with cochlear implants in the educational environment / Dianne Toe
  • Part four: Contemporary issues in postsecondary education
  • Providing access for deaf students in a technical university in the United States: perspectives of students and instructors / Susan Foster, Gary Long, Judy Ferrari, and Karen Snell
  • Educating deaf students in sign linguistics / Odd-Inge Schroder
  • Slipping through the cracks? The support needs of hard of hearing students in a university program / Gwen Spradbrow and Des Power.