Deaf Child Crossing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deaf Child Crossing write by Marlee Matlin. This book was released on 2013-04-30. Deaf Child Crossing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A compelling and humorous story of friendship from Academy Award–winning actress Marlee Matlin. Cindy looked straight at Megan. Now she looked a little frustrated. "What's the matter? Are you deaf or something?" she yelled back. Megan screamed out, and then fell to the ground, laughing hysterically. "How did you know that?" she asked as she laughed. Megan is excited when Cindy moves into her neighborhood—maybe she’ll finally have a best friend. Sure enough, the two girls quickly become inseparable. Cindy even starts to learn sign language so they can communicate more easily. But when they go away to summer camp together, problems arise. Cindy feels left out because Megan is spending all of her time with Lizzie, another deaf girl; Megan resents that Cindy is always trying to help her, even when she doesn’t need help. Before they can mend their differences, both girls have to learn what it means to be a friend.
Made to Hear
Made to Hear - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Made to Hear write by Laura Mauldin. This book was released on 2016-02-29. Made to Hear available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A mother whose child has had a cochlear implant tells Laura Mauldin why enrollment in the sign language program at her daughter’s school is plummeting: “The majority of parents want their kids to talk.” Some parents, however, feel very differently, because “curing” deafness with cochlear implants is uncertain, difficult, and freighted with judgment about what is normal, acceptable, and right. Made to Hear sensitively and thoroughly considers the structure and culture of the systems we have built to make deaf children hear. Based on accounts of and interviews with families who adopt the cochlear implant for their deaf children, this book describes the experiences of mothers as they navigate the health care system, their interactions with the professionals who work with them, and the influence of neuroscience on the process. Though Mauldin explains the politics surrounding the issue, her focus is not on the controversy of whether to have a cochlear implant but on the long-term, multiyear undertaking of implantation. Her study provides a nuanced view of a social context in which science, technology, and medicine are trusted to vanquish disability—and in which mothers are expected to use these tools. Made to Hear reveals that implantation has the central goal of controlling the development of the deaf child’s brain by boosting synapses for spoken language and inhibiting those for sign language, placing the politics of neuroscience front and center. Examining the consequences of cochlear implant technology for professionals and parents of deaf children, Made to Hear shows how certain neuroscientific claims about neuroplasticity, deafness, and language are deployed to encourage compliance with medical technology.
Raising and Educating a Deaf Child
Raising and Educating a Deaf Child - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Raising and Educating a Deaf Child write by Marc Marschark. This book was released on 2009. Raising and Educating a Deaf Child available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The second edition of this guide offers a readable, comprehensive summary of everything a parent or teacher would want to know about raising and educating a deaf child. It covers topics ranging from what it means to be deaf to the many ways that the environments of home and school can influence a deaf child's chances for success in academic and social circles. The new edition provides expanded coverage of cochlear implants, spoken language, mental health, and educational issues relating to deaf children enrolled in integrated and separate settings. Marschark makes sense of the most current educational and scientific literature, and also talks to deaf children, their parents, and deaf adults about what is important to them. Raising and Educating a Deaf Child is not a "how to" book or one with all the "right" answers for raising a deaf child; rather, it is a guide through the conflicting suggestions and programs for raising deaf children, as well as the likely implications of taking one direction or the other.
Deaf Children in China
Deaf Children in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deaf Children in China write by Alison Callaway. This book was released on 2000. Deaf Children in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. She also made fact-finding visits to several other schools and programs for deaf preschoolers, and had discussions with teachers, administrators, and staff members. The findings from her study form the remarkable body of information presented in Deaf Children in China."--BOOK JACKET.
Early Literacy Development in Deaf Children
Early Literacy Development in Deaf Children - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Literacy Development in Deaf Children write by Connie Christine Mayer. This book was released on 2015. Early Literacy Development in Deaf Children available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Connie Mayer and Beverly J. Trezek provide an in-depth, evidence-based description of how young deaf children learn to read and write. They also set out a model of literacy development that makes clear links between theory and practice.
