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Helping Children Who Are Deaf: Family and Community Support for Children Who Do Not Hear Well »

Authors: Sandy Niemann, Devorah Greenstein, Darlena David
ISBN-13: 9780942364446, ISBN-10: 0942364449
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Hesperian Foundation, The
Date Published: February 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Sandy Niemann

Book Synopsis

Chapter 1	Hearing difficulties and communication	1
	Why communication is important	2
	Language makes learning and community possible	10
	Coming together for deaf rights	11
	All children can learn to communicate	12
Chapter 2	Children who cannot hear well need help early	13
	How children develop new skills	14
	Learning language	15
	How language helps the mind develop	17
	Deaf children need help early	18
	How to know if your child needs help	18
Chapter 3	Guidelines for teaching language	21
	Communicate as much as you can	21
	Fitting activities into your family's daily life	22
	Many people can help	24
	Suggestions for helping your child learn	26
	Change activities to suit your child	31
Chapter 4	Basic communication skills	33
	How children learn to communicate	34
	Preparing a child to use signs and to speak	37
	Communicate with home signs	40
	Examples of signs	42
	Encourage your child to make sounds	44
Chapter 5	What can your child hear?	47
	Understanding sound (loudness and pitch)	48
	What sounds can your child hear?	50
	How to check your child's hearing	51
Chapter 6	Listening skills	59
	Tips for parents to become aware of sounds	61
	Activities to help your child notice more about sounds	62
Chapter 7	Choosing and learning a language	67
	How children learn language	68
	Language and thinking develop together	69
	Sign language and spoken language	72
	Using sign language	73
	Using spoken language	75
Chapter 8	Learning to use a sign language	85
	Help your child learn different kinds of signs	87
	Learning to sign	89
	Understanding groups of signs	94
	Using groups of signs	97
	Use questions to encourage your child to think	99
	Teaching sign language to parents of deaf children	103
Chapter 9	Learning to use a spoken language	105
	Hlep your child learn speech sounds	106
	Help your child learn his first words	107
	Encourage your child to answer simple questions	111
	Pay attention to how words are said	112
	Help your child learn more words	114
	Understanding groups of words	116
	Learning to use groups of words	118
Chapter 10	Social skills	121
	How children learn social skills	122
	Deafness makes it harder to learn social skills	124
	How to manage your child's behavior	125
	How to encourage a child's social development	132
Chapter 11	Working together to help children who are deaf	139
	What is your community?	139
	Making the community a better place for children who are deaf	142
	Forming support groups	146
	Bring deaf children together with other deaf people	147
	Everyone benefits from efforts to support deaf children	149
Chapter 12	Education	151
	Schools and language	154
	Deaf children in classes with hearing children	155
	Deaf children in their own group	157
	Good schools meet deaf children's needs	160
	Good schools prepare a child to make a living	164
Chapter 13	Preventing child sexual abuse	167
	Some facts about child sexual abuse	168
	Why are deaf children at risk?	169
	Preventing sexual abuse	171
	How can I know if my child has been abused?	176
	If your child has been abused	177
Chapter 14	Support for parents and caregivers	179
	When you first learn your child cannot hear well	180
	Understanding your emotions	181
	Managing the stress of caregiving	182
	Parents' groups	184
	Planning for action	187
Chapter 15	Why children lose their hearing and what we can do	191
	Ear infection	193
	Something blocks sound in the ear	198
	Childhood illnesses	201
	Medicines that damage hearing	206
	Women's health can damage or protect children's hearing	207
	Loud noises and injury	213
	Hearing loss passed down in families	215
Appendix A	Hearing aids	219
Appendix B	Cochlear implants and hearing	227
Appendix C	Child development charts	231
	Where to get more information	239

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