The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies, Language, and Education, Volume 1, Second Edition Book

	Introduction	3
1	Perspectives on the history of deaf education	9
2	Demographic and achievement characteristics of deaf and hard-of-hearing students	21
3	Curriculum : cultural and communicative contexts	38
4	Educational consequences of alternative school placements	52
5	Early intervention : current approaches to family-centered programming	65
6	Educational programming for deaf children with multiple disabilities : accommodating special needs	82
7	Processes and components of reading	97
8	Approaches to teaching reading	110
9	Writing : characteristics, instruction, and assessment	123
10	Bilingualism and literacy	136
11	Deaf communities	151
12	Peer interactions of deaf and hard-of-hearing children	164
13	Social and emotional development of deaf children : family, school, and program effects	177
14	Parent-infant interactions : a transactional approach to understanding the development of deaf infants	190
15	Mental health and deaf adults	203
16	The development of American Sign Language and manually coded English systems	219
17	Development of spoken language by deaf children	247
18	Expressing meaning : from communicative intent to building a lexicon	247
19	The role of cued speech in language development of deaf children	261
20	Formal and informal approaches to the language assessment of deaf children	275
21	Assessing children's proficiency in natural signed languages	289
22	Origins of sign languages	305
23	Sign language structures	319
24	Modality and the structure of languages : sign languages versus signed systems	332
25	Interpreters and interpreter education	347
26	The neural systems underlying sign languages	361
27	Speech perception and spoken word recognition	379
28	Advances in the genetics of deafness	392
29	Technologies for communication : status and trends	406
30	Screening and assessment of hearing loss in infants	420
31	Cochlear implants : issues and implications	434
32	Intellectual assessment of deaf people : a critical review of core concepts and issues	451
33	Cognitive functioning in deaf adults and children	464
34	Working memory, neuroscience, and language : evidence from deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals	478
	Epilogue - what we know, what we don't know, and what we should know	491