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"Book presents the educational implications for deaf and hard of hearing children and offers reason-based practices for improving their English language and literacy development"-- "The difficulty that deaf and hard of hearing students have in attaining language and literacy skills has led to postulations that attribute their struggle to a developmental deficit. Recent research reveals, however, that deaf students acquire language structures, produce errors, and employ strategies in the same fashion as younger hearing students, though at later ages. The ability of all students to learn language and literacy skills in a similar manner at different stages forms the foundation of the Qualitative Similarity Hypothesis (QSH). This volume describes the theoretical underpinnings and research findings of the QSH. It presents the educational implications for deaf and hard of hearing children and offers reason-based practices for improving their English language and literacy development. This collection also stresses the critical importance of exposing educators to the larger fields of literacy and second-language learning. Providing this background information expands the possibility of differentiating instruction to meet the needs of deaf students. Deaf Students and the Qualitative Similarity Hypothesis includes commentary on the QSH for both first- and second-language English learners and reflects on how the QSH can effect a better future for all language students. "--

SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. --- EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / General. --- EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General. --- English language --- Hearing impaired --- Deaf children --- Hard-of-hearing --- Hearing disorders --- Partial hearing --- Partially hearing --- People with disabilities --- Children, Deaf --- Deafness in children --- Hearing impaired children --- Study and teaching. --- Education --- Language. --- Patients --- taal --- dove studenten --- Language --- Study and teaching --- English language Study and teaching --- Heard of hearing children

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"Increased interaction between sign language communities and the mainstream societies in which they function is creating the potential for greater equality of opportunity for people who are deaf and hard of hearing. In this volume, renowned scholars and policy makers from around the world present innovative and groundbreaking perspectives on the relationships among sign language, sustainable development, and equal opportunities. The contributors to this volume offer creative and open-minded explorations of the construct of sustainability that are informed by their work with deaf individuals, deaf communities, families of deaf children, and other stakeholders. Sign Language, Sustainable Development, and Equal Opportunities describes sustainability in relation to: · identity, resilience, and well-being ·partic­ipatory citizenship ·historical perspectives on sign language use in educational contexts ·sign language learning and teaching ·human rights and inclusive education ·literate thought and literacy ·the sign language factor and the development of sign language communities in sub-Saharan Africa ·sign language legislation These changing communities' understanding of what is required to become sustainable--in areas such as full participation and citizenship in society, economic well-being, access to quality education, and cultural and linguistic identity--is also taking new forms. This work contributes to the paradigm shifts regarding deaf emancipation and deaf education taking place around the world"--

EDUCATION / Special Education / General. --- Equality. --- Deafness --- Sign language. --- Deaf --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Political science --- Sociology --- Democracy --- Liberty --- Hearing loss --- Audiology --- Ear --- Hearing disorders --- Hearing --- Gesture language --- Language and languages --- Gesture --- Signs and symbols --- Education of the deaf --- Social aspects. --- Education. --- Diseases --- Sign language