Nurturing Language and Learning: Development of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Infants and Toddlers (Professional Perspectives On Deafness: Evidence and Applications) - Softcover

Spencer, Patricia Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199931321 ISBN 13: 9780199931323

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Combines a review of up-to-date data with theory and first-hand observations to provide guidelines for development of deaf and hard-of-hearing children (birth to age 3) and ways professionals and parents can best support their learning and language development.

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About the Author

Patricia Elizabeth Spencer has been a teacher, assessment specialist, and educational advocate for deaf and hard-of-hearing students (including those with multiple learning challenges) across the age range of infancy through post-graduate levels. Her work at the Gallaudet Research Institute focused on early interaction, play, and language development. She has worked internationally as a researcher and educational consultant and has written extensively on issues related to development and education of deaf and hard-of-hearing children.

Lynne Sanford Koester retired from the University of Montana after 25 years of teaching developmental psychology there and at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. She has also worked in Ethiopia, Austria, and Germany, and is the former Director of the Intercultural Youth and Family Development graduate program at her university. Her research has focused primarily on infant development within the family context - parenting behaviors and cultural influences, early parent-child interactions, and intuitive parenting.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199931321
• ISBN 13: 9780199931323
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 424