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Issues Unresolved New Perspectives on Language and Deaf Education

Name: Issues Unresolved New Perspectives on Language and Deaf Education
Author: Israe International Congress on ...
ISBN: 9781563680670

by Israe International Congress on ...

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Overview

The 20 provocative papers selected from the 18th International Congress on Education of the Deaf for this trenchant volume challenges the invested reader in four critical areas of deaf education worldwide.

Part 1, Communication: Signed and Spoken Languages, addresses matters that range from critical periods for language acquisition to assessing the impact of immigration policies on the ethnic composition of Australia's deaf community. Part 2, Communication: Accessibility to Speech, continues the debate with works on the perception of speech by deaf and hard of hearing children and automatic speech recognition and its applications.

Educational issues are brought to the forefront in Part 3 in such engrossing studies as the application of an instrumental-enrichment cognitive intervention program with deaf immigrant children from Ethiopia. Part 4, Psychological and Social Adjustment reviews progress in this area, research on the development of deaf and hearing children's sex-role attitudes and self-endorsements. These and the many other contributions by renowned international scholars in the field make Issues Unresolved a compelling new standard for all involved in deaf education.

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Comprises 20 contributions selected from the 400-plus papers presented at the 18th International Congress on Education of the Deaf. Representative paper topics include: assessing cognitive, relational, and language abilities of deaf preschoolers in Italy; the perception of speech by children with hearing loss; school and classroom characteristics that facilitate the social integration of deaf and hard of hearing children; deaf students attending regular four-year colleges and universities in the US; and deaf identity in adolescence. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

T. Reagan

This volume gathers twenty chapters that were originally presented at the 18th International Congress on Education of the Deaf (ICED) held in Tel Aviv in July 1995. It is divided into four broad thematic sections: communication (focusing on signed on spoken language issues), communication (with an emphasis on issues related to accessibility to speech), educational issues, and issues of psychological and social adjustment. The contributors themselves come from throughout the world and include a number of researchers and educators who are very much on the cutting edge of research in deaf education and related ares. Weisel (Tel Aviv Univ.) has done an excellent job as editor. The chapters are well-written and provide an outstanding overview of the contemporary issues and debates related to language in the education of the deaf. The title of the book, as well as its formal organization (especially with respect to the two separate sections on communication issues), offers an unfortunately accurate view of the continued divisiveness in deaf education, where a number of key issues do remain unresolved, as they have been for well over a century. Upper-division undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and researchers, and professionals and practitioners. -- (T. Reagan, University of Connecticut, Choice)