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Research and experience have shown that signing helps many students learn to read. The Signing for Reading Success booklet explains this concept, why it works, who it works for, and how to implement it in a classroom. The booklet provides summaries of four research studies on the usefulness of signing for reading achievement. It also suggests a methodology for a single-subject research study that teachers can conduct to validate for themselves the findings presented.
This edited volume picks up where Psychological Perspectives on Deafness, Volume 1 ended. Composed of review chapters that reflect cutting-edge views from well-known international researchers within the field, this book surveys issues within the field of deafness, such as cognition, learning disabilities, social development, language development, and psychopathology. It also highlights the many new and exciting findings currently emerging from researchers across a variety of disciplines--psychology, education, linguistics, and child development. The chapters will engage, challenge, and lead the field on to productive empirical and theoretical work relating to the broad range of questions which concern the psychological perspectives on deafness.
As deaf and hard of hearing children are identified at an increasingly early age, professionals need to expand their knowledge about early intervention and education for these young children and their families. This scholarly text from the experts provides a solid foundation of research, key concepts, and practical suggestions. Essential reading for early childhood educators, education professionals, speech-language pathologists and students, this comprehensive resource fullyl prepares readers for successful partnerships with families and their deaf and hard of hearing chldren.
The 19th International Congress on Education of the Deaf (ICED) in 2000, held in Sydney, Australia, brought together 1,067 teachers, administrators and researchers from 46 countries to address an extremely wide selection of topics. Experts from around the world discussed inclusion of deaf students in regular educational environments, literacy, audiology, auditory development and listening programs, hearing aids, programming for children with cochlear implants, signed communication in education, bilingual education, early intervention (including the rapidly emerging area of newborn hearing screening), education in developing countries, deaf students with multiple disabilities, and deaf studen...
This book is an edited selection of the papers presented at the International Workshop on VLSI for Artifidal Intelligence and Neural Networks which was held at the University of Oxford in September 1990. Our thanks go to all the contributors and especially to the programme committee for all their hard work. Thanks are also due to the ACM-SIGARCH, the IEEE Computer Society, and the lEE for publicizing the event and to the University of Oxford and SUNY-Binghamton for their active support. We are particularly grateful to Anna Morris, Maureen Doherty and Laura Duffy for coping with the administrative problems. Jose Delgado-Frias Will Moore April 1991 vii PROLOGUE Artificial intelligence and neur...
Five teens, staying up late, searching for friendship and maybe a few answers in life, are suddenly joined by a mysterious visitor to their chat room. Who is this mysterious visitor? That's the question all five teens-and thousands of teen readers--must ultimately answer.
Award-winning cartoonist Dick Hafer has compiled a collection of his best-loved cartoons in one book, Church Chuckles, to remind us of the occasional silliness that creeps into all denominations. Only for people who like to laugh, Church Chuckles is sure to be a comic classic.
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