Reading Practices with Deaf Learners

Written specifically for professors and college students in teacher training programs for deaf education and for classroom teachers working with deaf and hard-of-hearing learners, this is one of the very few books on the market that focus entirely on the hearing impaired.

Section 1: “Foundations”—contains chapters dealing with theory and research on such topics as: cognition, reading, language, literary development, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Section 2: “Instructional Management”—describes instructional systems and designs. These chapters look at current trends in education and how these trends apply to the education of students who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Section 3: “Applications”—focuses on specific instructional models in reading, writing, and spelling, detailing strategies that have been successfully used with deaf and hard-of-hearing learners. The last chapter in this section discusses assessment, giving information and examples of both formal and authentic procedures.