Deaf Education
I Fill This Small Space
The Writings of a Deaf Activist
1st Edition
Lawrence Newman became deaf at the age of five in 1930, and saw his father fight back tears knowing that his son would never hear again. The next time he saw his father cry was in 1978, when Newman received ...
Deaf Education in America
Voices of Children from Inclusion Settings
First Edition
Deaf Education in America: Voices of Children from Inclusion Settings provides a detailed examination of the complex issues surrounding the integration of deaf students into the general classroom. Author ...
The Spanish National Deaf School
Portraits from the Nineteenth Century
First Edition
In nineteenth-century Spain, the education of deaf students took shape through various contradictory philosophies and practices. Susan Plann depicts this ambivalence by profiling a select group of teachers ...
The History of Inclusion in the United States
First Edition
As a significant term, inclusion came into use relatively recently in the long history of special education in the United States. Since the 1800s, when children with disabilities first were segregated ...
Advances in Cognition, Education, and Deafness
The Second International Symposium on Cognition, Education, and Deafness in 1989 broadened and deepened the scope of investigation initiated at the first conference held five years earlier. Advances ...
Cognition, Education, and Deafness
Directions for Research and Instruction
Literacy and Your Deaf Child
What Every Parent Should Know
First Edition
In the modern world, success depends upon literacy, a fact especially true for deaf children who, if they read and write well, can take full advantage of e-mail, the Internet, and other communication ...
Inner Lives of Deaf Children
Interviews and Analysis
By conducting interviews with seven deaf children, ages seven to ten, Martha Sheridan offers a fresh look at their private thoughts and feelings in this watershed book. Each child possesses a unique cultural ...
Special Education in the 21st Century
In the late 20th century, a tidal wave of calls for reform and inclusion of special needs students swept over public special education. The current debates over implementing these themes today are authoritatively ...
For “Children Who Vary from the Normal Type”
First Edition
In his perceptive study of the education of disabled children during the 19th and early 20th centuries, Robert Osgood focuses upon the Boston school system as both typical and a national leader among ...