Main description:

- Coverage of deaf people and cognition, neuroscience, bimodal/bilingualism, and education technology
- Strong multicultural focus
- Case studies from authors' clinical and educational practices
- Three deaf and one hearing author-a deaf/hearing bilingual team

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgments

Historical Perspectives of Deaf People and Psychology
Deaf Communities: Diverse Entities
How It All Begins
Cognition, Language, and the Mind
Educational Aspects of Deaf Education
Language Learning and Language Teaching Approaches
Psychological Issues in Childhood
Deaf Adults: Viewpoints from Psychology
Deaf Adults: Viewpoints from Sociology
The Deaf Defendant: Communication, Language, and Legal Considerations
Deaf-Hearing Relationships in Context
From Now to the Future

Case Studies

References

Index