Enhancing Communication Skills of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children in the Mainstream

First Edition
Author: James Mahshie; Mary June Moseley; Susanne M. Scott; James Lee
ISBN #: 0769300995
©2006   Publish Date: 08/02/2005
Binding: PB
Pages: 300
Publisher: Cengage Learning

Price: $124.95

Product Benefits:

• Offers needed, practical guidelines on the communication needs of deaf and hard of hearing children and the best clinical practices to ensure that they make improvements in a broad range of educationally relevant areas.
• Presents guidelines for assessing and improving the auditory and visual aspects of the learning environment.
• Includes detailed review of the assessment and intervention of communication skills from pre-language through later language development.
• Identifies key factors that lead to communication success.
• Case studies follow four students with hearing loss across time to demonstrate therapy and treatment in real-world contexts.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Part I: Background
Chapter 1: Factors Influencing the Acquisition and Refinement of Communication Skills.
Chapter 2: Communication Access: Overview and Issues
Chapter 3: Issues in Assessment and Intervention
Part II
Chapter 4: Pre-Language Communication
Chapter 5: Pre-Language Assessment and Intervention
Chapter 6: Later Language Development
Chapter 7: Adolescent Language: Assessment and Intervention
Appendix A: Resource List for Children with Auditory Processing Disorders (APD)
Appendix B: Troubleshooting Technology
Appendix C: Technology Resources
Appendix D: Recommendations for Comprehensive Assessment: Pragmatics and Semantics. Appendix E: Familiarity and Transparency Ratings for 100 Idioms
Appendix F: Familiarity Ratings for 107 Proverbs
Appendix G: Pronunciation Skill Inventory
Index

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