Research Catalog

Title

Psychological development of deaf children / Marc Marschark.

Author

Marschark, Marc.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

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Details

Description

xii, 275 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

This book is the first comprehensive examination of the psychological development of deaf children. Because the majority of young deaf children (especially those with nonsigning parents) are reared in language-impoverished environments, their social and cognitive development may differ markedly from hearing children. The author here details those potential differences, giving special attention to how the psychological development of deaf children is affected by their interpersonal communication with parents, peers, and teachers. This careful and balanced consideration of existing evidence and research provides a new psychological perspective on deaf children and deafness while debunking a number of popular notions about the hearing impaired. In light of recent findings concerning manual communication, parent-child interactions, and intellectual and academic assessments of hearing-impaired children, the author has forged an integrated understanding of social, language, and cognitive development as they are affected by childhood deafness. Empirical evaluations of deaf children's intellectual and academic abilities are stressed throughout. Psychological Development of Deaf Children will be of great interest to students, teachers, and researchers studying deafness and how it relates to speech and hearing; developmental, social, and cognitive psychology; social work; and medicine.

Subject

• Deaf children > Psychology
• Deaf children > Language
• Child development
• Child psychology
• Children
• Infants
• Child Development
• Deafness
• Psychology, Child
• Child
• Infant
• children (people by age group)
• infants
• Infants
• Children
• Child psychology
• Child development
• Deaf children > Language
• Deaf children > Psychology
• Gehörlosigkeit
• Kind
• Kinderpsychologie
• Doven
• Kinderen
• Geestelijke ontwikkeling
• Desenvolvimento da crianca (psicologia)
• Surdez
• Deficientes
• Enfants sourds > Psychologie
• Surdité > Chez l'enfant
• Enfants > Développement
• Enfants > Psychologie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Development of deaf children : issues and orientations : perspectives on deafness -- The Nature and scope of deafness -- Definitions and demographics of deafness -- The Sociocultural context of deafness -- The Linguistic context of development -- About signing and manual communication -- The Early years : the social-emotional context of development : Origins of social development -- The Growth of social interaction -- Looking beyond the mother-infant bond.
• Social and personality development during the school years : Dependence, independence, and social change during the early school years -- Parents versus peers : social implications of schooling for deaf children -- Striving for achievement and success -- Impulsivity and deafness -- Morality and social perspective-taking -- Foundations of language development in deaf children -- Competence versus performance -- Do deaf children babble? -- The Role of gesture in sign language acquisition -- Cognitive constraints on language development in deaf children.
• Language acquisition : understanding language development -- Emergence of sign -- Co-occurrence of sign and speech -- Semantic development as indicated through sign language -- Parental imput and language acquisition -- Language acquisition in the context of impoverished language models -- Intelligence and Cognitive Development : Intellectual functioning of deaf children -- Cognitive abilities of deaf children -- Short-Term Memory : Development of Memory Coding -- On memory development -- Visual short-term memory in deaf children -- Temporal and spatial bases of sequential coding in short-term memory -- Short-term memory for linguistic component stimuli -- Short-term memory for familiar, meaningful stimuli.
• Long-Term Memory : Codes, Organization, and Strategeies : "Early classics" -- Alternatie codes of long-term memory in deaf children -- Organizaton and memory -- Creativity and flexibility : the Myth of concreteness -- Defining creativity for deaf (or hearing) children -- Nonlinguistic creativity of deaf children -- Linguistic creativity of deaf children -- Figurative language abilities of deaf -- Creativity "directed" at deaf children -- Where does nonliteral language come from? -- Learning to Read and Write : Can J-O-H-N-N-Y read? -- Components of the reading abilities of deaf children -- Writing by deaf children -- Development of deaf children : toward an integrated view : On causes, constraints, and correlates -- Do deaf and hearing children have different brain organization? -- Are deaf children taught to be deficient? -- Future directions.

ISBN

• 0195068998
• 9780195068993
• 9780195115758
• 0195115759

LCCN

92016491

OCLC

• ocm25873404
• 25873404
• SCSB-9123132

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library