Educating Deaf Learners

Preface Contributors

1. Educating Deaf Students in a Global Context Harry Knoors and Marc Marschark

Part 1. A Changing World for Deaf Learners

2. Being a Deaf Student: Changes in Characteristics and Needs Sue Archbold

3. When You're Not Average, Be (Come) Excellent: Barriers and Opportunities for Deaf Students Corrie Tijsseling

4. Responding to Cultural and Linguistic Diversity among Deaf and Hard of Hearing Learners Greg Leigh and Kathryn Crowe

5. Research on Language Development: Discourses on Learning and Messages to Family Support After Cochlear Implantation Marieke Bruin

Part 2. Language, Literacy, and Numeracy

6. Awareness of Hong Kong Sign Language and Manually Coded Chinese by Deaf Students in a Sign Bilingual and Co-enrollment Setting: A Hong Kong Case Study Gladys Tang, Chris, Kun-Man Yiu, and Scholastica Lam

7. Literacy and Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: Research and Practice Susan R. Easterbrooks and Michella Maiorana-Basas

8. Developing Numeracy in Individuals Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing Claudia M. Pagliaro

9. Language Assessment of Deaf Learners Rosalind Herman

10. Issues of Access and Validity in Standardized Academic Assessments for Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Stephanie W. Cawthon

Part 3. Cognition, Social, and Emotional Development

11. Deaf Children's Executive Functions: from Research to Practice? Daan Hermans, Brigitte Vugs, Lian van Berkel, and Harry Knoors

12. Social-Cognition for Learning as a Deaf Student Gary Morgan

13. Social Relations of Deaf Learners: Important Resources for Socio-Emotional Well-Being and Academic Success Manfred Hintermair

14. Reciprocity in School Peer Relationships of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Early Adolescents: Promoting Empowerment Nina Wolters and Jet Isarin

15. Stress among Children Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing and Their Families Anat Zaidman-Zait

16. The Role of the Environment in Children's Emotion Socialization: The Case of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children Carolien Rieffe, Anouk P. Netten, Evelien Broekhof, Guida Veiga

17. Social Relations, Mental Health, and Deaf Learners: Approaches to Intervention Johannes Fellinger and Daniel Holzinger

Part 4. Technology for Learning and Development

18. Enhancing Emergent Literacy in Preschool Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children through Interactive Reading Evelien Dirks and Loes Wauters

19. Language Skills and Literacy of Deaf Children in the Era of Cochlear Implantation: Suggestions for Teaching through e-Learning Visual Environments Maria Cristina Caselli, Pasquale Rinaldi, Daniela Onofrio and Elena Tomasuolo

20. EmotionWeb: From Fundamental Research to a Functional Tool for Professionals Karin Wiefferink, Meinou de Vries, and Lizet Ketelaar

21. Benefits of Technology-Enhanced Learning for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students Eliane Segers and Ludo Verhoeven

22. Click and Start Learning! Innovative Development Programs for Professionals Chantal Gervedink Nijhuis and Arie Terpstra

Part 5. Learning and Educational Context

23. Enhancing Academic and Social Outcomes: Balancing Individual, Family, and School Assets and Risks for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students in General Education Shirin D. Antia

24. Classroom Adaptations for Effective Learning by Deaf Students Leo De Raeve

25. Curriculum Design in Dutch Deaf Education Annet de Klerk, Connie Fortgens, and Annelies van der Eijk

26. Re-envisioning Learning and Teaching in Deaf Education: Towards new Transactions between Research and Practice Ruth Swanwick

Epilogue

27. Educating Deaf Learners in the 21st Century: What We Know and What We Need to Know Marc Marschark and Harry Knoors

Index