This careful and balanced overview provides a new psychological perspective on deaf children and deafness while debunking a number of popular notions about the hearing impaired, and forges an integrated understanding of social, language, and cognitive development as they are affected by childhood deafness.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 1: The Development of Deaf Children: Issues and Orientations
- 2: The Nature and Scope of Deafness
- 3: The Early Years: The Social-Emotional Context of Development
- 4: Social and Personality Development During the School Years
- 5: Foundations of Language Development in Deaf Children
- 6: Language Acquisition
- 7: Intelligence and Cognitive Development
- 8: Short-Term Memory: The Development of Memory Coding
- 9: Long-Term Memory: Codes, Organization, and Strategies
- 10: Creativity and Flexibility: The Myth(?) of Concreteness
- 11: Learning to Read and Write
- 12: The Development of Deaf Children: Toward an Integrated View
