Forest Books: Amanda Weisel Issues Unresolved: New Perspectives On Lang& Educ

Twenty provocative papers selected from the 18th International Congress on Education of the Deaf challenge the reader in four critical areas of deaf education world-wide. Part 1, 'Communication: Signed and Spoken Languages' addresses critical periods for language acquisition; Part 2, 'Communication Accessibility to Speech' continues the debate with works on the perception of speech by deaf and partially deaf children; Educational issues are brought to the forefront in Part 3 in engrossing studies as the application of an instrumental-enrichment cognitive intervention programme with deaf children from Ethiopia; Part 4, 'Psychological and Social Adjustment' reviews progress in this area, and research on the development of deaf and hearing children's gender-role attitudes. Hardcover 272 pages 1998