Oxford handbook of deaf studies, language, and education / edited by Marc Marschark and Patricia Elizabeth Spencer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction--1: Educational Issues:- 1. Perspectives on the History of Deaf Education--2. Demographic and Achievement characteristics of Deaf-and Hard-of-hearing students--3. Curriculum: Cultural and communicative contexts--4. Educational conssequences of Alternative School Placements--5. Early intervention: Current approaches to family-centered programming--6. Educational programming for deaf children with multiple disabilities: accommodating special needs--11: Literacy and Literacy Education:- 7. Processes and components of reading--8. Approaches to Teaching Reading--9. Writing: Characteristics, instructions and Assessment--10. Bilingualism and literacy--111: Cultural, social and psychological issues:-11. Deaf communities--12. Peer interactions of deaf and hard-of-hearing children--13. Social and emotional development of deaf children: Family, school and program effects--14. Parent-infant interactions: A Transactional approach to understanding the development of deaf infants--15. Mental health and deaf adults---IV: Language and Language Development:-16. The development of american sign language and manually coded english systems--17. Development of spoken language by deaf children--18. Expressing meaning: From communicative intent to building a lexicon--19. The role of cued speech in language development of deaf children--20. Formal and informal approaches to the language assessment of deaf children--21. Assessing children;s proficiency in natural signed languages--V: Signed Languages:- 22. Origins of Sign Language--23. Sign Language structures--24. Modality and the structure of Language: Sign languages versus signed systems--25. Interpreters and interpreter Education--26. The Neural Systems underlying sign language--VI: Hearing and Speech Perception:-27. Speech perception and spoken word recognition--28. Advances in the Genetics of Deafness--29. Technologies for Communication: Status and Trends--30. Screening and asessment of hearing loss in infants--31. Cochlear implants: issues and implications--VII: Cognitive Correlates and Consequences of Deafness:-32. Intellectual assessment of Deaf People: A critical Review of core concepts and issues--33. Cognitive functioning in deaf adults and children--34. Working memory, Neuroscience, and Language: Evidence from deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals--Epilogue - What we know, what we don\'t know, and what we should know.

This title is a major professional reference work in the field of deafness research. It covers all important aspects of deaf studies: language, social/psychological issues, neuropsychology, culture, technology, and education.