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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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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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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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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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Part ethnography and part historical study, The Artificial Ear is based on interviews with researchers who were pivotal in the early development and implementation of the new technology necessary for cochlear implants. Through an analysis of the scientific and clinical literature, Stuart Blume reconstructs the history of artificial hearing from its conceptual origins in the 1930s, to the first attempt at cochlear implantation in Paris in the 1950s, and to the widespread clinical application of the Â"bionic earÂ" since the 1980s. ... 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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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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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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A fine read and an excellent addition to any memoir collection
Hearing is a sense all too easily taken for granted. "What's That Pig Outdoors?: A Memoir of Deafness" is a memoir from Henry Kisor, an accomplished literary journalist who earned his position in spite of his nearly life long deafness. Not one to speak on deaf culture, he was trained to live among the hearing and as such has many unique viewpoints, including the impact of the Americans with Disabilities act. "What's That Pig Outdoors?" is a fine read and an excellent addition to any memoir collection.

all hearing people should read this book
This book tells the story of a deaf man - his growing up, his college and adult years and forging a career. it is not maudlin, or sad.He writes well, and is the first book that i have read that pinpoints the problem of the deaf person learning to think in language. The chapter explaining the method for which he learned to read and to write was fascination. Should be required reading for all teachers, becuase this method would be useful for teaching anyone who is having problems learning to read.The author does not sign, and has never learned to sign.He has actually never entered the subculture of the deaf, and lives only in the hearing world.This is an interesting divide, since we hearing people have no knowledge of this division.This is a short book, and easily read in an afternoon.It is not a gripping adventure story, but still i recommend it highly.We must bridge the gap between people, and not many deaf people are able to write books about their own experiences.For that reason, i feel it is an important book.Also, i recommend Crashing Thru, the book about Mike May. He became blind at the age of 3, and had a successful and fulfilling life without sight, and then had his vision restored as an adult. Read them both, and expand your own world.

Just an Amazing Read of Determination & Joy in Living
What should our attitude be towards the deaf?Kisor gives us good insight with his memoir which is beautifully, sensitively and humorouly written.Some would term him an outcast to both the deaf culture and the hearing culture, since he lipreads and doesn't sign.Can't possibly be happy because he can't fully participate in hearing world, he's missing so much.But Kisor disagrees.

He achieved more than most hearing, having accumulated great English language skills.He demonstrates with the rare book written about deafness from a deaf author.His title is fascinating, since it is from story regarding his five-year old son and the nuances lipreading has trouble discerning.

Yes, improvements have happened and will continue with behavioral psychology and deafness, but here the spirit of the human inside is spoken of, something that no program can really guarantee success, but determination, help and support will aid.

This marvelous memoir contributes much to this cause.It is a most wonderful read for all interested in what a deaf person in a hearing world might be going through, especially the emotional strains deafness brings with it.Much to be gleaned here.

A belated discovery
I have only just caught up with this book 14 years after it was published. Kisor is very good on how he managed a life as a deaf person who operates orally in a hearing world, and manages to be quite tactful in dealing with the subject of the Deaf -- people who use sign language. He is perhaps more tactful than he really should be in discussing the ignorance of a lot of educators of the severely hearing-impaired and the rather patronizing "poor-you" attitude they often take.

I can say this because I have only a little more hearing than Kisor -- and for the same reason, meningitis at the age of 3. I am ten years older than he but remember well some of the stages he describes so accurately and honestly. Like him, I was lucky in my early teachers and in being kept away from schools for the deaf.

It does need to be said that cognitive psychologists and students of child language have learned a great deal about child language development since Kisor and I were children and even since his book was published in 1991. Their progress dates from Noam Chomsky's destruction of behaviorist notions of language almost 50 years ago. I hope very much that things have changed significantly in the education of the deaf and severely hearing-impaired.

With luck, students will recognize that Kisor is describing a bygone era. But it is an era that was and is still well worth describing.

What's That Pig Outdoors
I read this book for an ASL class in college and wow.This book is great.An amazing autobiography written by a deaf man, Henry Kisor who has managed to exist in a hearing world as a deaf man strictly by lip reading.He has been a journalist and this is amazing to me.A wonderful story written in the point of view of a deaf man and his lifelong journey to success and living in the hearing world.Reading this book has made me take a look at my life and made me feel as if I could do anything. ... Read more

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In The Gestural Origin of Language, Sherman Wilcox and David Armstrong use evidence from and about sign languages to explore the origins of language as we know it today. According to their model, it is sign, not spoken languages, that is the original mode of human communication.

The authors demonstrate that modern language is derived from practical actions and gestures that were increasingly recognized as having the potential to represent, and hence to communicate. In other words, the fundamental ability that allows us to use language is our ability to use pictures or icons, rather than linguistic symbols.Evidence from the human fossil record supports the authors' claim by showing that we were anatomically able to produce gestures and signs before we were able to speak fluently. Although speech evolved later as a secondary linguistic communication device that eventually replaced sign language as the primary mode of communication, speech has never entirely replaced signs and gestures.

As the first comprehensive attempt to trace the origin of grammar to gesture, this volume will be an invaluable resource for students and professionals in psychology, linguistics, and philosophy. ... Read more

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This book is well established as the classic reference for professionals requiring up to date information on hearing and deafness. It is designed to serve as an introduction and as an inspiration to those entering the field to develop their expertise and insight. This Seventh Edition of Ballantyne’s Deafness has been substantially revised and updated to reflect significant developments in the field. In addition, brand new chapters and/or sections have been added on auditory processing, pharmacology, balance, hearing therapy and functional imaging. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... 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