- Title
- Changing parameters in deafness and deaf education: greater opportunity but continuing diversity
- Creator
- Leigh, Greg
- Relation
- Deaf Cognition: Foundations and Outcomes p. 24-51
- Relation
- Perspectives on Deafness 6
- Relation
- http://www.oup.com.au/titles/academic/education/9780195368673
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- Developments in a number of related fields are providing greater opportunities for deaf children to access spoken language than at any time in history. Most notable among these developments have been the advent of universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) and the increasing accessibility of cochlear implantation. In addition, an increasing emphasis on inclusive education and continuing advances in understanding the foundations of learning by deaf children have served to dramatically alter expectations about both linguistic and educational outcomes for deaf children. Nevertheless, the outcomes of therapeutic and educational interventions with deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children continue to be characterized by considerable variability. Indeed, rather than serving to homogenize the educational needs of this population of learners, new developments ensure that those needs become ever more diverse and complex. Such diversity raises particular issues for educators and places new demands upon service delivery systems, pedagogy, and research.
- Subject
- deafness; deaf education; universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS); cochlear implantation
- Identifier
- uon:6664
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/804584
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780195368673
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