"Language development, and the challenges it can present for individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, have long been a focus of research, theory, and practice in D/deaf studies and deaf education.
Over the past 150 years, but most especially near the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century, advances in the acquisition and development of language competencies and skills have been increasing rapidly.
This volume addresses many of those accomplishments as well as remaining challenges and new questions that have arisen from multiple perspectives:
theoretical, linguistic, social-emotional, neuro-biological, and socio-cultural. Contributors comprise an international group of prominent scholars and practitioners from a variety of academic and clinical backgrounds. The result is a volume that addresses, in detail, current knowledge, emerging questions, and innovative educational practice in a variety of contexts.
The volume takes on topics such as discussion of the transformation of efforts to identify a ""best"" language approach (the ""sign"" versus ""speech"" debate) to a stronger focus on individual strengths, potentials, and choices for selecting and even combining approaches; the effects of language on other areas of development
as well as effects from other domains on language itself; and how neurological, socio-cognitive, and linguistic bases of learning are leading to more specialized approaches to instruction that address the challenges that remain for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. This volume both complements and extends The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, Volumes 1 and 2, going further into the unique challenges and demands for deaf or hard-of-hearing individuals than any other text and providing not only compilations of what is known but setting the course for investigating what is still to be learned."
Preface Contributors Part One - Policies, Choices, and Foundations 1. It Seems Like Only Yesterday... Patricia Elizabeth Spencer 2. Foundations for Language Development in Deaf Children and the Consequences for Communication Choices Harry Knoors 3. Rethinking Total Communication: Looking Back, Moving Forward Connie Mayer 4. From Erasure to Recognition (and Back Again?): The Case of Flemish Sign Language Mieke Van Herreweghe, Maartje De Meulder, and Myriam Vermeerbergen 5. The Role of Language in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children's Social-Emotional Development Manfred Hintermair Part Two - The Basics of Language and Language Development 6. Perception of the Prosodic Characteristics of Spoken Language by Individuals with Hearing Loss Tova Most 7. The Fine Art of Conversation: The Pragmatic Skills of School-Aged Children with Hearing Loss Louise Paatsch and Dianne Toe 8. Grammatical Competence after Early Cochlear Implantation Louise Duchesne 9. Spoken Vocabulary Development in Deaf Children With and Without Cochlear Implants Mary K. Fagan 10. Fingerspelling: Beyond Handshape Sequences Jonathan Keane and Diane Brentari 11. Vocabulary Acquisition in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children: Research and Interventions Daan Hermans, Loes Wauters, Margot Willemsen, and Harry Knoors Part Three - Multimodal and Multilingual Language Development 12. Bimodal Bilingualism: Sign Language and Spoken Language Ronice Muller de Quadros, Diane Lillo-Martin, and Deborah Chen Pichler 13. Developing Sign Bilingualism in a Co-Enrollment School Environment: A Hong Kong Case Study Gladys Tang and Chris Kun-Man Yiu 14. Acquisition of Sign Language as a Second Language Deborah Chen Pichler and Helen Koulidobrova 15. Teaching English as a Second Language to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students Ewa Domagala-Zysk Part Four - Neurological and Neurocognitive Bases of Language 16. A Biolinguistic Approach to Sign Languages Antonio Benítez-Burraco 17. Neurocognitive Function in Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants: Early Development and Long-Term Outcomes Irina Castellanos, David B. Pisoni, William G. Kronenberger, and Jessica Beer 18. Neurolinguistic Studies of Sign Language Bilingualism David P. Corina 19. What the Illiterate Brain Tells the Deaf Brain Alexandra Castro-Caldas Part Five: Challenges for Language Users and Language Researchers 20. New Directions in Signed Language Assessment Wolfgang Mann and Tobias Haug 21. Investigating Sign Language Development, Delay, and Disorder in Deaf Children Chloë Marshall and Gary Morgan 22. Language and Communication in People Who Are Deafblind Mathijs P. J. Vervloed and Saskia Damen 23. Dyslexia and Deafness Rosalind Herman and Penny Roy Part Six: Supporting Literacy and Learning 24. Cued Speech and Cochlear Implants: A Powerful Combination for Natural Spoken Language Acquisition and the Development of Reading Jacqueline Leybaert, Clemence Bayard, Cecile Colin and Carol LaSasso 25. Encouraging Emergent Reading in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children Susan R. Easterbrooks and Jessica W. Trussell 26. Phonological Knowledge and the Development of Language and Literacy Skills in Deaf Learners Joseph H. Bochner and Aaron Kelstone 27. The Impact of Cochlear Implants on Deaf Children's Literacy Margaret Harris 28. Scaffolding Learning Through Classroom Talk: The Role of Translanguaging Ruth Swanwick 29. Understanding Language in the Real World Marc Marschark, Elizabeth Jackson Machmer, and Carol Convertino
"Marc Marschark isa professor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a college of Rochester Institute of Technology, where he directs the Center for Education Research Partnerships. His primary interest is in relations among language, learning, and cognition. His current research focuses on such relations among deaf children and adults in formal and informal educational settings. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. Patricia Elizabeth Spencer is a retired professor of social work at Gallaudet University. As a research scientist at Gallaudet's Center for Studies in Education and Human Development, she had conducted research on early cognitive and communication/language development of deaf and hard-of-hearing children. Her ongoing interest in communication and language development grew from her ""hands-on"" experiences as a teacher, assessment specialist, and educational advocate for deaf and hard-of-hearing students as well as those with multiple learning challenges."
Reviews for The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Language
This handbook will undoubtedly become a treasured volume in the libraries of researchers, educators, and clinicians in the field. The scholarly content includes a unique blend of interdisciplinary perspectives on unresolved problems, current evidence, and new frontiers. The impressive list of highly respected authors makes evident the contemporary nature of the work and its foundations in translational research and practical application. The text leaves one with a sense of hopefulness about progress made, but also a strong sense of urgency about the need to address persisting and new challenges with flexible paradigms. Mary Pat Moeller, Director, Center for Childhood Deafness, Boys Town National Research Hospital In this follow-up volume, Marschark and Spencer have amassed a collection that is impressive in breadth and depth. Written by leaders in their respective domains, the authors lay out the state of the art and directions for research in the next century. The research presented here documents the sea-change observable in classrooms and schools for deaf children and is reflected in the variety of chapters--ranging from universal newborn screening, to results from earlier and earlier cochlear implantation, to multiple- and complex-needs children, to language and literacy development, to changes in Deaf identity. A masterful companion to the original volume. C. Tane Akamatsu, Psychologist, Toronto District School Board
