I review the literature on reading and deafness, focusing on the role of three broad factors in
acquisition and skilled reading: the method of encoding print; language-specific knowledge …

This article provides a review of the topic of treatment efficacy for children with hearing loss.
Efficacy is related to a wide range of treatment goals in the areas of sensory and perceptual …

As linguistic diversity increases in countries around the world, policy-makers and educators
are faced with complex and conflictual issues regarding appropriate ways of educating a …

Over the past decade there has been a significant increase in interest from educators and
the general public about deafness, special education, and the development of children with …

Deaf children are not hearing children who can't hear, and having a deaf child is not
analogous to having a hearing child who can't hear. Beyond any specific effects of hearing …

Debates about methods of supporting language development and academic skills of deaf or
hard-of-hearing children have waxed and waned for more than 100 years: Will using sign …

Teaching Deaf Learners: Psychological and Developmental Foundations explores how deaf
students (children and adolescents) learn and the conditions that support their reaching their …

The importance of early exposure to language is gaining widespread recognition as a result
of accumulating data from studies that investigate language development in deaf individuals …

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine whether and how learning American Sign
Language (ASL) is associated with spoken English skills in a sample of ASL–English …

No doubt, in order to answer the question of whether sensitivity to a particular modality must
be triggered by some am ount of experience or not, we must examine the response to these …