This edited volume starts from where Psychological Perspectives on Deafness, Volume 1 ended. Composed of review chapters that reflect views from researchers, this book surveys issues within the field of deafness such as cognition, learning disabilities, social development, language development and psychopathology. It also highlights the many findings emerging from researchers across a variety of disciplines - psychology, education, linguistics and child development. The chapters should engage, challenge and lead the field on to productive empirical and theoretical work relating to the broad...

This book presents chapters by many eminent researchers and interventionists, all of whom address the development of deaf and hard-of-hearing children in the context of family and school. A variety of disciplines and perspectives are provided in order to capture the complexity of factors affecting development of these children in their diverse environments. Consistent with current theory and educational practice, the book focuses most strongly on the interaction of family and child strengths and needs and the role of educational and other interventionists in supporting family and child...

How can parents and teachers most effectively support the language development and academic success of deaf and hard-of-hearing children? Will using sign language interfere with learning spoken language? Should deaf children be placed in classrooms with hearing children? Are traditional methods of teaching subjects such as reading and math to hearing children appropriate for deaf learners? As many parents and teachers will attest, questions like these have no easy answers, and it can be difficult for caring adults to separate science from politics and fact from opinion in order to make...