Raising and Educating a Deaf Child

Marc Marschark is Director of the Center for Research, Teaching, and Learning at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a college of Rochester Institute of Technology. A professor and research psychologist, his books include Relations of Language and Thought: The view from sign language and deaf children (1997), Psychological Development of Deaf Children (1993) and Psychological Perspectives on Deafness (1993).

Foreword; Preface; 1. A Deaf Child in the Family; 2. Practical Aspects of Being Deaf; 3. Communicating with the Deaf; 4. Early Interactions: The Roots of Childhood; 5. Language Development; 6. Going to School; 7. Learning to Read and Write; 8. Intelligence, Achievement, and Creativity; 9. Deaf Children to Deaf Adults; 10. Where Do We Go From Here?; Appendix