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Deaf Cognition examines the cognitive underpinnings of deaf individuals' learning. Marschark and Hauser have brought together scientists from different disciplines, which rarely interact, to share their ideas and create this book. It contributes to the science of learning by describing and testing theories that might either over or underestimate the role that audition or vision plays in learning and memory, and by shedding light on multiple pathways for learning. International experts in cognitive psychology, brain sciences, cognitive development, and deaf children offer a unique, integrative examination of cognition and learning, with discussions on their implications for deaf education. Each chapter focuses primarily on the intersection of research in cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and deaf education. The general theme of the book is that deaf and hearing individuals differ to some extent in early experience, brain development, cognitive functioning, memory organization, and problem solving. Identifying similarities and differences among these domains provides new insights into potential methods for enhancing achievement in this traditionally under-performing population. ... Read more

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Psychosocial Aspects of Deafness highlights contemporary mental health issues affecting deaf and hard of hearing individuals with overviews of topics in the fields of psychology, sociology, and deafness. The text covers the development of one's identity, the emergence of the healthy personality, and the establishment of mental health services for deaf and hard of hearing individuals. In addition, it provides the reader with a review of assessment instruments, counseling techniques, and therapeutic models.Family dynamics are discussed from a variety of ethnic backgrounds, reflecting the cultural diversity that is evident within the Deaf community. Furthermore, strategies for classroom management focus on enhancing the emotional growth of deaf and hard of hearing children. The broad scope of the subject matter allows flexibility and provides fresh material for new approaches to courses related to this topic within the field of deaf education. Contemporary theories concerning social development and sexual behaviors are discussed and applied to this diverse community. ... Read more

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Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals develop their identities within environments that convey and reinforce preconceived assumptions of disability and of deafness, thereby encouraging particular ways of accommodating individuals' hearing status. These assumptions ultimately influence the evolution of their identities and in turn their psychological well-being. This notion is particularly important within societies that frame deaf or hard-of-hearing persons as living in a "prison of silence" (a metaphor the media uses frequently when extolling the virtues of cochlear implants) or which view them in one-dimensional perspectives-- rather than recognizing that there are many ways to be deaf or hard-of-hearing.

Many factors, some ever-present and some that have emerged in recent years, impact the unique identities of deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals today. These factors, which are explored in A Lens on Deaf Identities, include explanatory paradigms that frame how deaf and hard-of-hearing people are understood within the context of disability and sociolinguistics; the relatively recent formal recognition of a Deaf culture and the emergence of bicultural frames of reference; the appearance of deaf identity theories in the psychological literature; the influence of families and schools, historical and social contexts; the acknowledgement of diversity in this population; and the technology that affects the identity of deaf people in potentially unexpected ways (e.g., cochlear implants as bionic ears, telecommunications that bring deaf people together with each other as well as with hearing people, and advances in genetics with implications for parental decision-making about hearing status and the acceptability of hearing differences). This book uses personal experiences, theoretical formulations, and research data to examine interfaces within and between each of these areas and how the tensions emerging at these junctures influence deaf and hard-of-hearing identity formation in complex, multifaceted ways that defy pervasive stereotypes of deaf and hard-of-hearing persons. A Lens on Deaf Identities will appeal to students and professional researchers in deaf studies and deaf education, as well as those interested in identity formation in the presence of "disability". ... Read more

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great
very usefull and complete! more than a\scientific book a story of life book!!! great for any dog lovers

Great guidence!
Well written with many, many tips and tricks to help your deaf dog become independent and well trained! Gives many good ideas and backgrounds to use when working with YOUR deaf dog.Excellent!

A must read for people with a deaf dog
This is an excellent book on communicating with a deaf dog and understanding what to expect as an owner of a deaf dog. By choice, I became an owner of a deaf dog who is probably one of the most responsive dogs I have ever had. This book provided me insight into living with a deaf dogs before she came home to us. The book helped to minimize my concerns about what to expect and provide ways to better communicate with my dog. I think it is a must read for anyone who has a deaf dog or is considering a deaf dog.

figure it out yourself
I'm just glad the book was not expensive...use your own common sense and save a penny

Just like anything else in life ..... the deafness becomes natural ..... you adapt ~
All the reviews re this book were good. Positive infomation and insights can always be used to benefit everyone involved. It's horribly shocking to me how and why anyone would hit their beloved pet. WHY? That does not work .... ever. It only instills fear and no love. It is not ever necessary to use any type of violence with pets or children. As a family, we've loved and lived with 20+ poochies (kitties too) in our lives. Many of our pets lived to be 16 and 17 years old. Ginger eventually became deaf as well as Maxx ..... old age. Miles lost all of his hearing when he was maybe 14 or 15. Also, our 18 year old kitty Muffee was totally deaf when we found him wandering on our back porch steps. He was starved ..... sick, every exhausted and ill. I think Muff slept in our special back room for 3 full days. Just eating good food, drinking fresh water and sleeping. Muffee has been gone for many years. We still remember how fun and funny this kitty was though. I named him Muffee (had zero idea he was a boy!) because this kitty looked like a "muff" ..... all (his fur was terribly shabby and coarse .... until we fattened him up) white, with gorgeous green eyes. we had no idea In June of this (2009) year, four months after our precious red cocker spaniel Miles died, I "found" LUCY, (black cocker spaniel) another (she is about 9 or 10 .... no one really knows for sure) old soul (on-line) at New Leash On Life,(in Chicago.) Lucy is/was totally deaf. So yes, we did know what to expect. Her ears were a nightmare for a long-long time because of neglect. Most likely this is what caused her overall deafness. Terribly sad and unfortunate. Luce was in very-very-very severe shape when rescued. We are fortunate to have our sweet girl. Now has a lovely life, just a completely different and very trusting pooch. Loving, kind, & funny, but also, a tad stubborn. Can't really mind that too much after what Luce has been through in her past. Having her around with our 14 year old poodle Jamie is wonderful. Jamie missed Miles so very much when he died. Would look for him continually in the back yard. So now, with Lucy, Jamie is absolutely much-much better. Very cheerful, and not gloomy any longer because he has a girlfriend named LUCY! Marcee/Chicago, IL/September 29, 2009 ... Read more

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The deaf are outsiders in a world largely created and controlled by those who hear. Based on intensive interviewing, observation, and the personal experience of the author (whose parents are deaf), Outsiders in a Hearing World examines the lives of deaf people within a social and historical context. It examines the communities created by deaf people and the identities of their members, and describes and analyzes the everyday interactions between the deaf and the hearing. Drawing on the works concerning other outsiders, this book not only increases our understanding of deafness and the deaf, but of outsiders in general. ... Read more

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This extensive study integrates the latest research onindividual differences and the interface between deafness and theenvironmentand intelligence. Dr. Braden utilizes meta-analysistechniques toassess data from over 8,000 subjects in 50 studies toexplore thebroad-ranging effects of deafness on such factors of IQdifferences,family dynamics, social interactions, genetic andinteractiontheories, and racial differences. ... Read more

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Handicapped in theory
What do psychologists think will happen if a child grows up deprived of intellectual and social stimulation, has to use a restricted linguistic code that is unknown to the local majority culture, and appears to be stupid?What if the child is aware of failing many mysterious `tests', faces unemployment as an adultand is beset by do-gooders who demand concessions from society rather than encourage realistic forms of achievement?Jeffrey Braden is an honest psychologist who admits he started out with the usual prejudices of guilt-ridden Whites about how racial differences in intelligence and attainment arise.Fortunately, he was propelled into realistic empirical endeavour by his appreciation that research on the deaf might bring home the firm evidence for social-environmentalist ideology that studies of Black people themselves had failed to deliver. Now, following his substantial record of academic publication (in the journals 'Personality & Individual Differences' and 'Intelligence'), Braden's 'Deafness, Deprivation and IQ' surveys 324 psychometric investigations of deaf children and adults and supplies a scholarly conclusion of great practical and political importance.

In addition to the usual problems of `minorities', the deaf in the West carry special handicaps.Many of them suffered maternal rubella (12%), pregnancy complications or premature births (7%), and childhood meningitis (7%).Their physical (15%) and `cognitive-behavioural' (21%) problems reflect a high rate of medical trauma.In childhood, many had awesome family problems of incomprehension and impatience with their deafness.Unlike other minorities, most deaf people did not even have parents, siblings or playmates who shared their fate;and their only serious means of communication (signing) reinforced their social isolation. Facing the political tasks of adulthood, the deaf even lack a dominant, affluent group that they can unitedly blame for their historical position and milk for compensatory funding and `positive' discrimination. On conventional Verbal IQ (VIQ) tests, the deaf score at around 86;and levels of educational attainment are still lower .However, scores are higher with testing procedures that use both signing and speech; Performance IQ (PIQ) testsgive a mean IQ of 97- rising to 100 on motor-intensive tests that require the least verbal mediation;and the tiny proportion of deaf people who have two deaf parents (and markedly fewer medical problems- presumably being merely `genetically deaf') are 8 IQ points higher still.This grossly handicapped minority thus has essentially normal general intelligence and a Verbal-Performance discrepancy that is a mirror-image of Afro-American results.Moreover, whereas what especially defies environmentalist interpretation is the big Black deficit on Performance scales, there is no such problem with the big deaf deficit on Verbal scales: while degree of hearing impairment provides no prediction of PIQ deficit (r =-.05), its strong negative link with VIQ (r = -.50 ) is just the kind of thing that common-sense environmentalism can explain.Could it even be that PIQ is artificially boosted in the deaf- in some kind of compensation for their handicap?As amongst Black children, degree of provision for spatial and constructive play bears little relation to PIQ;and parents notoriously stop deaf children playing in order to make them concentrate on language.Anyhow, the notion of intelligence developing in compensation for a handicap has no conspicuous applicability to other minorities.Braden's thorough consideration of such explanatory options is impressive and persuasive. According to the Israeli educationalist, Reuven Feuerstein, Black children lack `mediated learning experience' (MLE) since their parents are inhibited from passing on Black culture;yet deaf children suffer no corresponding PIQ handicap despite their own parents being largely unable as well as quite often unwilling to serve as the `cultural mediators' that Feuerstein's theory requires.As Braden says (p. 191),MLE theorists have "emphasized the primary impact of MLE on intellectual development";by contrast, across the wide range of past studies of the deaf, "heritability approaches could account for all of the major findings if minor allowances were tolerated".

As a bonus, Braden's investigations are also relevant to the newly re-opened question of how intelligence, personality and achievement may `differentiate' into more distinct dimensions at higher levels of general intelligence ('g'), Mental Age or IQ- as originally observed by the British psychologists Charles Spearman and Sir Cyril Burt and the American psychologist Henry Garrett.Time and again, the psychometric properties of IQ-type tests turn out to be normal in deaf samples- apart from the lower Verbal mean.By no conspicuous criterion are mental tests inappropriate for the deaf- any more than for Black people. The deaf are not qualitatively different from the hearing in how different types of mental tests correlate, so there is no support for H. R. Myklebust's `organismic shift hypothesis' of special deaf development.However, the lowered correlations among mental tests as higher 'g' levels are reached (through childhood) do seem to appear at a later chronological age in the deaf:recent evidence of Braden's own is that "deaf children lag behind normal-hearing peers in the differentiation of intellective abilities over the age span" (p.91).If it is accepted that the deaf have normal intelligence, this lag implies that differentiation requires development, time and effective application of intelligence as well as just relatively high 'g' itself .It is as if the branching of differentiated, less correlated abilities requires its own history ofinvestment and even `interest accumulation', and not just the immediate availability of good central resources.

Braden's thorough consideration of deprivation makes the issues and relevant methods very clear even at the cost of some repetition of major themes.Here for once is an author who is too modest by half when he says that "the best conclusion from the study....is that it raises many intriguing questions for future research".Braden thoroughly deserves his warm Afterword from California's Emeritus Professor Arthur Jensen.Without this work no library of differential psychology will be complete- especially if a second edition gives it a decent index. ... Read more

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Humans' first languages may have been expressed through sign. Today, sign languages have been found around the world, including communities that do not have access to education or literacy. In addition to serving as a primary medium of communication for deaf communities, they have become among the most popular choices for second language study by hearing students.The status of sign languages as complex and complete languages that are clearly the linguistic "equal" of spoken languages is no longer questioned.Research on the characteristics of visual languages has blossomed since the 1960s, and careful study of deaf children's development of sign language skills is pursued to obtain information to promote deaf children's development.Equally important, the study of how children learn sign language provides excellent theoretical insights into how the human brain acquires and structures sign languages.In the same sense that cross-linguistic research has led to a better understanding of how language affects development, cross-modal research allows us to study acquisition of language in the absence of a spoken phonology.The contributors to this volume are leading scholars and researchers of the acquisition and development of sign languages.The authors provide cogent summaries of what is known about early gestural development, interactive processes adapted to visual communication, and the processes of semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic development in sign.They address theoretical as well as applied questions, often with a focus on aspects of language that are (or perhaps or not) related to the modality of the language.Readers, especially if they also read the companion volume Advances in the Spoken Language Development of Deaf and Hard-of Hearing Children, will have access to cutting-edge information about deaf children's language development as well as a deeper understanding of linguistic structures, modality effects, and human potential for language development. ... Read more

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Great Book!
I think this a great book- very educational. It gives wonderful examples and have a great deal of research within it. I highly recommend that more teachers use this book. ... Read more

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Raymond Luczak, poet, playwright, and filmmaker, hands us Silence is a Four-Letter Word, as his call to arms for deaf artists everywhere. He uses a cross-platform approach - a short story, a series of rapid-fire mini-essays, a short play, and a self-interview - to illuminate his points. His meditations on what makes art "art" and deafness "deaf" asks artists everywhere to rethink observations on their work and live differently. ... Read more

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Portrayal of Art & Deafness
Luczak's book includes a short story, a play, a self-interview, and a record of lessons he has learned so far on being an artist. It is an introduction to Deaf culture for anyone new to the world of deafness and enriching for those already familiar with it. He shares many ideas of what art should be--some of them surprising--all of them inspiring. It's a book you will want to read with a pencil in your hand so that you can mark the parts that touch you. ... Read more

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This book discusses the causes of deafness, the types of deafness that can be identified, the effects of deafness on people's lives, and the help that exists for the hearing impaired. ... Read more

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In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against 'ableist' discourse and for a complete recasting of the category of disability itself. Enforcing Normalcy surveys the emergence of a cluster of concepts around the term 'normal' as these matured in Western Europe and the United States over the past 250 years. Linking such notions to the concurrent emergence of discourses about the nation, Davis shows how the modern nation-state contracted its identity on the backs not only of colonized subjects, but of its physically disabled minority. In a fascinating chapter on contemporary cultural theory, Davis explores the pitfalls of privileging the figure of sight in conceptualizing the nature of textuality. And in the treatment of nudes and fragmented bodies in Western art, he shows how the ideal of physical wholeness is both demanded and denied in the classical aesthetics of representation. Enforcing Normalcy redraws the boundaries of political and cultural discourse.By insisting that disability be added to the familiar triad of race, class, and gender, the book challenges progressives to expand the limits of their thinking about human oppression. ... Read more

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Excellent study of 'the tyranny of the norm' - and much more
This book, seven strong chapters and a brief, personal Preface,ably discusses and deconstructs historic notions of disability ("the missing term in the race, class gender triad")and fully describes the harrowingly destructive - because so socially, culturally, and psychically damaging -concept of 'the norm,' historic uses (and abuse) of the body, and with it: the body politic.

Dr Davis supplies the reader with a bit of context. He grew up as the hearing child of Deaf parentsin New York's South Bronx, where his parents, he reports, "were as good as any other person in the South Bronx, which is to say they were pretty badly off."

Chapter Four, "Nationalism and Deafness: The Nineteenth Century" offers historic perspectives on deafness, including the fact that by the beginning of the nineteenth century, sign language had become a transnational language. Anyone fluent in sign language could communicate with any other signer - worldwide. This is no small thing. The Deaf "became a subgroup within each state throughout Europe." Some additional topics are: oralism and sign language, disability, class, nationalism, eugenics, politics, poverty, industrialization, and health. The bigger concepts of inclusion and exclusion are touched upon, too.

"Deafness and Insight" is a challenging and complex chapter in which Davis explores "deafness as a critical modality." A main assertion throughout this book is that the concept of the "normal" body informs cultural assumptions about art, literature, and the totality, in fact, of culture.

Other chapters with much to offer and challenge the reader are "Universalizing Marginality," in which Davis explores the reasons behind the intense cultural and philosophical interest during the European eighteenth century of deafness. Health and 'fitness,' images of the 'normal' and the not-normal body, and the fact that disability is most often an acquired thing (you get hurt or get old - and wind up with a 'disability.') are investigated. Art, literature, and media are cited with success.

This is a book that is thought-provoking, remarkably informative, and completely worth the effort it requires. Dr. Davis'world view is clearly presented and wholly graspable. Hismethods of analysis are consistently intellectually muscular, Occasionally he ventures into academic methodologies that are a bit out of the range of the common reader. Tough stuff, and worth the effort. Many pages of endnotes, a (long) list of works cited, and a very good index. ... Read more

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This book is a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the major psychological, social, and educational issues affecting the lives of children, adolescents, and adults who are deaf and hard of hearing, and their families. Psychological, Social, and Educational Dimensions of Deafness presents an inclusive description of current research and practice that is complemented by the voices of individuals through personal essays that highlight and illustrate significant concepts and trends. Professionals and pre-professionals preparing for roles in education, psychology, counseling, rehabilitation, interpreting, and speech and hearing science will find the book timely, readable, and thorough. Each chapter focuses on a topic relevant to the broad scope of issues related to the lifelong development of individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing. Each chapter can stand alone in providing in-depth discussion and offers a core of current information from which instructors and students can apply both personal and professional experiences. ... Read more

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Interesting read
This book covers alot of subjects in regards to Deaf culture and the individuals within that community.There are so many aspects to deafness such as age, the family are they hearing/deaf?How do the parents raise them, what belief systems will the grow up with about themselves? What school, location their development, cognitive function, do they have other disabilities as well?There is a medical perspective, social/psychological perspective and cultural perspective.It's alot more than just a culture book.

It is interesting and covers areas I never thought to think about or didn't know where "issues".It is easy to read, so I am able to cover a lot at one time.It is definately a book you could keep as a reference in your library.

deaf education
This book is definatly typed as a textbook is but is full of great information regarding Deaf culture.I would recommend this book to anyone interested in Deaf culture. ... Read more

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This publication is a complement to "Timetables of World Literature". ... Read more

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Includes the legal rights for the hearing impaired
Now in an updated and expanded second edition, the Facts On File Encyclopedia Of Deafness and Hearing Disorders provides a comprehensive and "user friendly" reference of basic information on hearing disorders and deafness, from types of conditions to the legal rights for the hearing impaired, treatment options, and degrees of hearing loss. An excellent, basic reference which should be considered for any serious health library collection. ... Read more

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This critical reevaluation of the causes of Beethoven's many illnesses offers detailed accounts of the treatments applied by his physicians and a comprehensive rendering of the composer's final illness, death, and burial. Separate chapters discuss the causes of many of Beethoven's illnesses, his autopsy and the exhumations. Following the rediscovery of the original Latin autopsy report in 1970, the author has discovered two faulty translations, which he argues contributed to errors in earlier medical assumptions. New evidence disputes earlier assertions that Beethoven's deafness resulted from syphilis. This fascinating account of Beethoven's ailments should appeal to Beethoven enthusiasts and to both the medical and music communities. ... Read more

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Presents the results of a 15-year research study addressing how communication develops in cases of diminished hearing, how does diminished hearing affect social and cognitive development, and the impact of an infant's diminished hearing have on its parents. Also explores infant attachment behaviors with regarding to deafness. ... Read more

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More the 1.46 million people in the United States have hearing losses in sufficient severity to be considered deaf; another 21 million people have other hearing impairments.For many deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, sign language and voice interpreting is essential to their participation in educational programs and their access to public and private services.However, there is less than half the number of interpreters needed to meet the demand, interpreting quality is often variable, and there is a considerable lack of knowledge of factors that contribute to successful interpreting.Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that a study by the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) found that 70% of the deaf individuals are dissatisfied with interpreting quality.Because recent legislation in the United States and elsewhere has mandated access to educational, employment, and other contexts for deaf individuals and others with hearing disabilities, there is an increasing need for quality sign language interpreting.It is in education, however, that the need is most pressing, particularly because more than 75% of deaf students now attend regular schools (rather than schools for the deaf), where teachers and classmates are unable to sign for themselves.In the more than 100 interpreter training programs in the U.S. alone, there are a variety of educational models, but little empirical information on how to evaluate them or determine their appropriateness in different interpreting and interpreter education-covering what we know, what we do not know, and what we should know.Several volumes have covered interpreting and interpreter education, there are even some published dissertations that have included a single research study, and a few books have attempted to offer methods for professional interpreters or interpreter educators with nods to existing research.This is the first volume that synthesizes existing work and provides a coherent picture of the field as a whole, including evaluation of the extent to which current practices are supported by validating research.It will be the first comprehensive source, suitable as both a reference book and a textbook for interpreter training programs and a variety of courses on bilingual education, psycholinguistics and translation, and cross-linguistic studies. ... Read more

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This is an account of David Wright's early education at a school for the deaf, and subsequent university career at Oxford, where he was a contemporary of Sidney Keyes, Keith Douglas, John Heath-Stubbs and Dom Mintoff. The second part traces the history of deaf education from its beginnings in the 16th century, and ends with an outline of recent developments, such as the Mary Hare Grammar School for the Deaf and the Audiology Research Unit at Reading. ... Read more

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Leading us into the world of silence, highly recommended
As a hearing person, it is hard for me to acquire an accurate picture of the deaf world as even my hearing impaired buddies can't tell much of the difference given their early loss of hearing and my limited understanding of sign language (they are somehow forced to sign more simply to express themselves in front of me).With a complete loss of hearing at the age of seven but mastery of English, the author can vividly depict how he 'sees' voices and sounds as well as what really exists in his world of silence.What's more, I truly admire his candid self-examination, such as the white superiority in South Africa in his times.It is racist in nowadays standard, but being truthful to oneself is far more precious than being politically correct to me.Highly recommend it to those who are interested in the issue of deafness. ... Read more