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| Foreword | |
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| A Deaf Child in the Family | |
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| A View From Within | |
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| Big D and Little d | |
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| Hearing Loss Versus Hearing Impairment | |
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| Sign Language | |
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| A Deaf Child in the Family | |
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| The Importance of Language | |
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| Growing Up Deaf: Differences Versus Deficiencies | |
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| Family Adjustment to Early Childhood Hearing Loss | |
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| Early Intervention | |
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| Final Comments | |
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| Practical Aspects of Being Deaf | |
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| In the Lands of the Deaf | |
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| Describing the Deaf Population | |
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| Causes and Consequences of Early Hearing Loss | |
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| Mechanisms of Hearing | |
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| Mechanisms of Hearing Loss | |
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| Degrees of Hearing Loss | |
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| Causes of Hearing Loss | |
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| Deaf Children With Other Needs | |
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| Early Identification of Hearing Losses | |
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| Identifying Hearing Loss Early | |
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| Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Challenges | |
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| Hearing Aids and Related Technology | |
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| Hearing Aids | |
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| Loop, Infrared, and FM Systems | |
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| Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Cochlear Implants | |
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| How Implants Work | |
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| A Brief History of Cochlear Implant Technology | |
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| Who Benefits From Cochlear Implants? | |
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| Long-Term Effects of Cochlear Implants | |
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| Technological Tools for Deaf People | |
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| TTYs and Pagers | |
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| Relay Services and Webcams | |
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| Captioning | |
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| Final Comments | |
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| Communicating With Deaf Children | |
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| Availability of Sign Language for Deaf Children | |
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| About Signed Languages | |
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| A Brief History of American Sign Language | |
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| Components of Signs and Signed Languages | |
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| Alternative Forms of Sign Communication | |
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| Pidgin Signed English and Contact Sign | |
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| Signed English | |
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| Seeing Essential English (SEE1) | |
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| Signing Exact English (SEE2) | |
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| Spoken Language | |
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| Speech Training and Speech Assessment | |
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| Oral Methods | |
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| Cued Speech | |
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| Final Comments | |
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| Early Interactions: The Roots of Childhood | |
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| Origins of Social Relations | |
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| Early Interactions Have Far-Reaching Effects | |
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| Accepting Childhood Deafness | |
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| The Show Must Go On | |
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| Attachment: Mother and Child Reunion | |
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| Looking Beyond the Earliest Relationships | |
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| The Importance of Play | |
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| Final Comments | |
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| Language Development | |
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| Do Deaf Babies Babble? | |
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| Vocal Babbling by Deaf Infants | |
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| Manual Babbling? | |
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| Gestures and Signs | |
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| First Signs, First Words | |
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| Growing Vocabularies | |
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| Learning to Fingerspell | |
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| Does Learning to Sign Affect Learning to Speak? | |
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| Does Signing Remove a Deaf Child's Motivation to Speak? | |
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| How Can Deaf Children Function in Society If They Cannot Speak? | |
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| How Does Not Being Able to Speak Affect Learning in School? | |
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| Signs and Words in the Same Child | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Learning to Use Sign Efficiently | |
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| Deaf Children's Exposure to Social Language | |
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| Final Comments | |
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| Going to School | |
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| Educating Deaf Children | |
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| Legal Issues Confronting the Education of Deaf Children | |
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| Educational Program Alternatives | |
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| Preschool Programs | |
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| Schools for the Deaf, Residential Schools, and Separate School Programs | |
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| Public School Mainstreaming and Inclusion | |
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| Bilingual Programs | |
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| Postsecondary Education for Deaf Students | |
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| Academic Support Services | |
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| Interpreting | |
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| Note Taking | |
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| Real-Time Text | |
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| Other Support Considerations | |
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| Educational Implications of Alternative School Placements | |
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| Psychological Implications of Alternative School Placements | |
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| Final Comments | |
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| Learning to Read and Write | |
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| What Is Reading? | |
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| What Makes Some Deaf Children (but Not Others) Good Readers? | |
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| Deaf Children of Deaf Parents | |
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| Phonological Knowledge and Spelling | |
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| Vocabulary Knowledge and Knowledge of the World | |
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| Understanding Grammar | |
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| Thinking About Reading | |
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| Deaf Children's Writing | |
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| The Impact of Social and Emotional Factors on Literacy | |
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| Final Comments | |
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| Intelligence, Academic Achievement, and Creativity | |
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| Understanding Intelligence | |
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| Language, Thought, and Intelligence | |
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| Confounding Factors in Intelligence | |
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| The Language Issue | |
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| Physiological and Psychological Contributions | |
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| Understanding Other Minds | |
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| Striving for Success | |
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| Measuring Academic Achievement | |
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| Creativity and Flexibility | |
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| What Is Creativity? | |
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| Nonverbal Creativity of Deaf Children | |
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| Verbal Creativity of Deaf Children | |
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| Do Deaf Children Have Special Visual Skills? | |
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| Final Comments | |
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| Deaf Children to Deaf Adults | |
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| Personality and Emotional Growth During the School Years | |
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| Living With Parents, Peers, and Siblings | |
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| Interactions With Peers | |
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| Influences of Brothers and Sisters | |
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| Understanding the Feelings and Values of Others | |
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| Mental Health | |
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| Are Deaf Children Impulsive? | |
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| Learning Disability | |
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| Final Comments | |
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| Where Do We Go From Here? | |
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| Being a Parent of a Deaf Child | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |