Sarah Beazley is a specialist speech and language therapist (SLT) who has worked with deaf people since 1983 and as a lecturer on undergraduate and postgraduate professional courses. She has written several publications in the area of deafness and disability and is a visiting scholar at the University of Edinburgh.

Judy Halden is dual qualified as an SLT and a teacher for deaf children. She has worked with deaf people since 1978, setting up and running specialist speech and language services for deaf children and for both deaf and deafened adults. She has been an adviser, lecturer, and supervisor on the Hertfordshire University course for teachers of deaf children, as well as an honorary research associate and lecturer at University College London's Department of Psychology and Language Sciences.

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Input

Chapter 3: Auditory access to sound

Chapter 4: Conversational skills: discourse and pragmatics

Chapter 5: Linking grammar and semantics to communicative independence

Chapter 6: Intelligibility: listeners, watchers, and phonetics

Chapter 7: Some final words

Chapter 8: Resources

Index