Provides medical, audiological and educational information that will assist in identifying the educational approach best suited to the hard-of-hearing or deaf child.
Offers a comprehensive overview of a child's language needs from kindergarten through middle school and explains how the communication problems associated with Down syndrome impact those needs, with practical suggestions designed to help teachers deal with those challenges and meet their students' needs.
A deaf child tells how he uses sign language, hearing aids, and his other senses to communicate, how his friends help him, and how he goes to public school with an interpreter.
Contains photographs that illustrate over three hundred words in American Sign Language, grouped in categories such as money, family, animals, school, party, and others, and includes the alphabet and numbers.
Examines the fundamental differences between written and spoken English and American Sign Language, the first language for more than 250,000 deaf people in North America. Includes instructions for using sign language in playing games, reading poetry, and singing songs.
