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Raising and Educating a Deaf Child

by Marc Marschark

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An evidence-based guide to the choices around deaf children’s learning and development

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An evidence-based guide to the choices around deaf children’s learning and development

Marc Marschark frames deaf children’s development as distinct from simply adapting hearing-child models. The third edition examines how access to language, opportunities for incidental learning, social interaction, and possible additional disabilities can shape language, academic, and social development. It places hearing technologies, including digital hearing aids and cochlear implants, alongside sign languages and deaf-focused schools and programs as parts of a wider range of supports. Centered on the decisions and debates facing adults around deaf children, the book presents an evidence-based overview of their varied strengths and needs.

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  • Parents and caregivers of deaf children
  • Teachers and education professionals working with deaf learners
  • Adults seeking an overview of language, educational, and support options for deaf children

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Deaf child developmentLanguage accessEducational supportSign language and hearing technologyFamily and professional decision-making

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Book overview

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 loss, deaf children are far more diverse than their hearing age-mates. A lack of access to language, limited incidental learning and social interactions, as well as the possibility of secondary disabilities, mean that deaf children face a variety of challenges in language, social, and academic domains.

In recent years, technological innovations such as digital hearing aids and cochlear implants have improved hearing and the possibility of spoken language for many deaf learners, but parents, teachers, and other professionals are just now coming to recognize the cognitive, experiential, and social-emotional differences between deaf and hearing children. Sign languages and schools and programs for deaf learners thus remain an important part of the continuum of services needed for this population. Understanding the unique strengths and needs of deaf children is the key.

Now in its third edition, Marc Marschark's Raising and Educating a Deaf Child, which has helped a countless number of families, offers a comprehensively clear, evidence-based guide to the choices, controversies, and decisions faced by parents and teachers of deaf children today.
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