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Teaching Deaf Learners: Psychological and Developmental Foundations explores how deaf students (children andadolescents) learn and the conditions that support their reaching their full cognitive potential -- or not. Beginning with an introduction to teaching and learning of both deaf and hearing students, Knoors and Marschark take an ecological approach to deaf education, emphasizing the need to take into account characteristics of learners and of the educational context. Building on the evidence base with respect to developmental and psychological factors in teaching and learning, they describe characteristics of deaf learners which indicate that teaching deaf learners is not, or should not, be the same as teaching hearing learners. In this volume, Knoors and Marschark explore factors that influence the teaching of deaf learners, including their language proficiencies, literacy and numeracy skills, cognitive abilities, and social-emotional factors. These issues are addressed in separate chapters, with a focus on the importance to all of them of communication and language. Separate chapters are devoted to the promise of multimedia enhanced education and the possible influences of contextual aspects of the classroom and the schoolon learning by deaf students. The book concludes by pointing out the importance of appropriate education of teachers of deaf learners, given the increasing diversity of those students and the contexts in which they are educated. It bridges the gap between research and practice in teaching and outlines ways to improve teacher education.

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9780199792023

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a must read for school directors, educators of teachers of the deaf, researchers in deaf education, and other professionals in deaf education. Loes N. Wauters, Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education

[The book] recognises that deaf children's development is no longer educationally the sole responsibility of specialist staff but instead a partnership between mainstream teachers and qualified TODs. As such it provides an excellent entry point into the world of deaf teaching for the interested newbie, and a good tool for teachers of the deaf to use in developing the understanding of their colleagues. Indeed, TODs will welcome the way the book breaks down evidence-based practice into manageable sections which can each be taken as the core of a training session or professional discussion. It will provide a valuable resource for both teachers of the deaf and mainstream teachers too. -Hannah Birch, review in Deafness & Education International

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Harry Knoors is a professor at the Behavioral Science Institute of the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and general director Knowledge & Innovation at Royal Dutch Kentalis. Knoors is trained as a psycholinguist, specializing in language and literacy of deaf children. He is involved in research on childhood deafness (mainly language, literacy, and psychosocial development) and research on the effectiveness of special education. Marc Marschark is a Professor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a college of Rochester Institute of Technology, where he directs the Center for Education Research Partnerships. His research focuses on language comprehension and learning by deaf children and adults in formal and informal educational settings.

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