Skip to content

Raising and Educating a Deaf Child

Best in textbook rentals since 2012!

ISBN-10: 0195094670

ISBN-13: 9780195094671

Edition: 1997

Authors: Marc Marschark

List price: $27.50
Blue ribbon 30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!
what's this?
Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:
Carrot Coin icon
XP icon
You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Over 90% of all deaf children are born to hearing parents. For most of these mothers and fathers, their own child is the first deaf person they have ever met. Raising a child who can hear is a challenging and difficult task, but raising a deaf child can seem like an overwhelming responsibility, especially with the mass of conflicting information and advice offered by professionals and well-meaning friends and family members. In Raising and Educating a Deaf Child, Marc Marschark offers parents and teachers a readable and comprehensive summary including everything a parent would want to know about growing up deaf. Parents of a deaf child, like the parents of any child, want to know the…    
Customers also bought

Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/17/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.31" wide x 9.44" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Marc Marschark is a Professor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, where he is Director of the Center for Education Research Partnerships. He has written or edited over 20 books and published over 100 articles and chapters. His current research focuses on relations of language and learning by deaf children and adults in formal and informal educational settings. Peter C. Hauser is an Associate Professor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. A deaf clinical neuropsychologist, he is the director of the Deaf Studies Laboratory (DSL) where he supervises deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing students who obtain hands-on experience developing, running, and analyzing…    

Preface
Note
Acknowledgments
Foreword
A Deaf Child in the Family
Practical Aspects of Being Deaf
Communicating with Deaf Children
Early Interactions: the Roots of Childhood
Language Development
Going to School
Learning to Read and Write
Intelligence, Achievement, and Creativity
Deaf Children to Deaf Adults
Where Do We Go from Here?
Glossary
Information Sources and Organizations Serving Deaf Children
Suggested Readings
Everyday Signs
Index