Main description:

Deaf children are not hearing children who can't hear. Beyond any specific effects of hearing loss, as a group they are far more diverse than hearing peers. Lack of full access to language, incidental learning, and social interactions as well as the possibility of secondary disabilities means that deaf learners face a variety of challenges in academic domains. 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 that there are cognitive, experiential, and social-emotional differences between deaf and hearing students likely to affect academic outcomes. Sign languages and
schools and programs for deaf learners thus remain an important part of the continuum of services needed for this diverse population. Understanding such diversity and determining ways in which to accommodate them must become a top priority in educating deaf learners.

Through the participation of an international, interdisciplinary set of scholars, Diversity in Deaf Education takes a broad view of learning and academic progress, considering "the whole child" in the context of the families, languages, educational settings in which they are immersed. In adopting this perspective, the complexities and commonalities in the social, emotional, cognitive, and linguistic mosaic of which the deaf child is a part, are captured. It is only through such a
holistic consideration of diverse children developing within diverse settings that we can understand their academic potentials.

Contents:

Preface

Chapter 1. Recognizing Diversity in Deaf Education: From Paris to Athens with a Diversion to Milan - Greg Leigh and Marc Marschark

Chapter 2. Evidence Based-Practice in Early Intervention: The Proof of the Pudding is in the Eating - Marilyn Sass-Lehrer and Alys Young

Chapter 3. The Transition from Early Intervention to School for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing
Children - Brenda T. Poon, Janet R. Jamieson, Anat Zaidman-Zait, Deirdre Curle, Nancy Norman, and Noreen Simmons

Chapter 4. School as a Site for Natural Language Learning - Marlon Kuntze, Debbie Golos, Kimberly Wolbers, Catherine O'Brien, and David Smith

Chapter 5. On the Home Front: Parent Personality, Support, and Deaf Student Success - Patrick Brice, Rachael Plotkin, and Jennifer Reesman

Chapter 6. High Standard Competencies for Teachers of the Deaf and Other Qualified Professionals: Always Necessary, Not Always Guaranteed - Guido Lichtert, Kevin Miller, Areti Okalidou, Paul Simpson, and Astrid van Wieringen

Chapter 7. Exploring Signed Language Assessment Tools in Europe and North America - Charlotte Enns, Tobias Haug, Rosalind Herman, Robert Hoffmeister, Wolfgang Mann, and Lynn McQuarrie

Chapter 8. Language use in the classroom: Accommodating the needs of diverse DHH learners - Harry Knoors

Chapter 9. The Development of Pragmatic Skills in Children and Young People Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Dianne Toe, Pasquale Rinaldi, Maria Cristina Caselli, Louise Paatsch, and Amelia Church

Chapter 10. Addressing Diversity in Teaching Deaf Learners to Write - Connie Mayer

Chapter 11. Many Languages, One Goal: Interventions for Language Mastery by School-Age Deaf and Hard of Hearing Learners - Susan R. Easterbrooks, Joanna E. Cannon, and Jessica W. Trussell

Chapter 12. From Social Periphery to Social Centrality: Building Social Capital for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students in the 21st Century - Gina A. Oliva, Linda Risser Lytle, Mindy Hopper, and Joan Ostrove

Chapter 13. The Inclusion of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in Mainstream Education: Classroom Participation and its Relationship to Communication, Academic and Social Skills - Naama Tsach, and Tova Most

Chapter 14. Mental Health Problems in Deaf and Severely Hard-of-Hearing Children and Adolescents: An Overview - Tiejo van Gent and Ines Sleeboom-van Raaij

Chapter 15. A Comprehensive Reading Intervention: Positive Postsecondary Outcomes and a Promising Practice for Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing - Greta Palmberg and Kendra Rask

Chapter 16. Considering Critical Factors Towards the Inclusion of Deaf Students in Higher Education - Merv Hyde, Magda Nikolaraizi Denise Powell, and Michael Stinson

Chapter 17. 21st Century Deaf Workers: Going Beyond Just Employed to Career Growth and Entrepreneurship - Ronald R. Kelly, Andrew B. Quagliata, Richard DeMartino, and Victor Perotti

Chapter 18. Recognizing Diversity In Deaf Education: Now What Do We Do With It?! - Marc Marschark and Greg Leigh