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Title details for Advances in the Spoken-Language Development of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children by Patricia Elizabeth Spencer - Available

Advances in the Spoken-Language Development of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children

by Patricia Elizabeth Spencer
Marc Marschark
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Throughout history there have been efforts to help deaf children develop spoken language through which they could have full access to the hearing world. These efforts, although pursued seriously and with great care, frequently proved fruitless, and often only resulted in passionate argumentsover the efficacy of particular approaches. Although some deaf children did develop spoken language, there was little evidence to suggest that this development had been facilitated by any particular education approach, and moreover, many, even most deaf children--especially those with profoundloss--never develop spoken language at all. Recent technological advances, however, have led to more positive expectations for deaf children's acquisition of spoken language: Innovative testing procedures for hearing allow for early identification of loss that leads to intervention services duringthe first weeks and months of life...

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Publisher: Oxford University Press

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  • Release date: February 27, 2007

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Psychology Nonfiction

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Throughout history there have been efforts to help deaf children develop spoken language through which they could have full access to the hearing world. These efforts, although pursued seriously and with great care, frequently proved fruitless, and often only resulted in passionate argumentsover the efficacy of particular approaches. Although some deaf children did develop spoken language, there was little evidence to suggest that this development had been facilitated by any particular education approach, and moreover, many, even most deaf children--especially those with profoundloss--never develop spoken language at all. Recent technological advances, however, have led to more positive expectations for deaf children's acquisition of spoken language: Innovative testing procedures for hearing allow for early identification of loss that leads to intervention services duringthe first weeks and months of life...

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Psychology Nonfiction
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