A shared history: putting this book in cultural perspective -- The emergence of language -- Development of children with hearing loss : state of our knowledge -- Participants and procedures : how independent sources of variability were handled -- Behavior, personality, and cognition -- Basic language measures : comprehension, vocabulary, and intelligibility -- Language in the real world : what we learn from natural samples -- Real-world language : developing native competencies -- Treatment effects -- All about parents -- Putting it all together : a latent measure of language acquisition -- Considering the past, planning for the future
Summary
Until recently, congenital hearing loss was a condition that generally curtailed a childs ability to develop the language of the ambient community and to succeed in mainstream educational settings. Two technological advances have radically changed that outlook for children with hearing loss: methods for screening hearing at birth and cochlear implants. This new book, based around a large-scale study, examines how closely the developmental trajectories of children with hearing loss matches those of children with normal hearing
