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Raising and Educating a Deaf Child: A Comprehensive Guide to the Choices, Controversies, and Decisions Faced by Parents and Educators |  | Author: Marc Marschark
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 410455
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 304
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0195376153
Dewey Decimal Number: 649.1512
EAN: 9780195376159
Publication Date: January 9, 2009
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The second edition of this guide offers a readable, comprehensive summary of everything a parent or teacher would want to know about raising and educating a deaf child. It covers topics ranging from what it means to be deaf to the many ways that the environments of home and school can influence a deaf child's chances for success in academic and social circles. The new edition provides expanded coverage of cochlear implants, spoken language, mental health, and educational issues relating to deaf children enrolled in integrated and separate settings. Marschark makes sense of the most current educational and scientific literature, and also talks to deaf children, their parents, and deaf adults about what is important to them.
Raising and Educating a Deaf Child is not a "how to" book or one with all the "right" answers for raising a deaf child; rather, it is a guide through the conflicting suggestions and programs for raising deaf children, as well as the likely implications of taking one direction or the other.
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 Raising and Educating A Deaf child October 5, 2001
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a most practical, sensitive book that is appealing for educators as well as families of deaf children. The author is renowned for his work in cognition and psychology, but demonstrates a wonderful understanding of deaf children through the eyes of an individual who seems to know their needs first hand. Any parent or teacher reading this book will get a sense of the complexities involved in raising a deaf child, but will also get a sense of hope and support for developing appropriate
guidance and nurturing. The author makes sure to speak to his audience as one among them and offers a wealth of advice regarding educational possibilities to audiological support to socio-emotional growth.This is an unassuming book that provides light at the end of the tunnel. Honest and sincere.
Great book! December 12, 2002
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the book you are looking for if you are the parent of a Deaf child. Tons of good information that is based on fact and not prejudice. The only negative thing I can say is the book was designed for the educated professional type of parent and includes advanced vocabulary and smallish print. You won't find illustrations, checklists or simplified information. Very excellent material that should help parents make informed decisions rearing their Deaf child. This is the kind of information that helped me to raise my own Deaf son who is now a happy and successful adult.
Some interesting tidbits July 21, 2001
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book gave me some good perspective on working with my deaf students. It did gives many opinions that I disagree with in the course of my own studies.
 Cued Language misinformation March 31, 2009
alabemos (Sarastota, FL United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
In an excerpt I read, "Still to be determined is how reading skills of children using Cued Speech compare to children learning sign language or some hybrid, like Signed English"
This book was published in 1998. They have plenty of research now--over forty years' worth, to show the efficacy of Cued Speech. I would have to wonder how much of the rest of the book is outdated as well.
 He doesn't get it. March 30, 2009
Matthew's mom (MA, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
His research is lacking greatly and his opinion that deaf children cannot read as well as hearing children is ludicrous. This 'know it all' professor is not perspicacious enough to understand the real workings of the deaf child's mind and all they actually do understand.
My recommendation is to look elsewhere if you want someone who is knowledgable in the area of deaf studies.
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