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Beschreibung

This book highlights the wide impact of deafness on many aspects of communication for deaf children and young people, and those around them. It explores input, semantics, grammar, and speech, and how you as a practitioner can apply this knowledge in different contexts, including for early years support.

Each chapter considers the impact of deafness on key communication components and provides you with opportunities to reflect on and extend knowledge and practice in each area. A range of strategies and activities are presented that can enhance the support you offer.

Key features include:

  • a framework to guide you to use your knowledge and the available resources to maximum effect with deaf children and young people
  • clear explanations throughout built on wide research evidence to enable you to employ approaches that will make a difference
  • a set of adaptable checklists to provide efficient assessment to help planning
  • a focus on supporting communicative independence in collaboration with each deaf child and young person

Written in an accessible, engaging format, this book equips practitioners with a range of tools to support the development of communicative independence and includes reflective questions to consolidate knowledge. It is a must-read for any practitioner working with deaf children and young people and their families.

This book highlights the wide impact of deafness on many aspects of communication for deaf children and young people, and those around them. It explores input, semantics, grammar, and speech, and how you as a practitioner can apply this knowledge in different contexts, including for early years support.

Each chapter considers the impact of deafness on key communication components and provides you with opportunities to reflect on and extend knowledge and practice in each area. A range of strategies and activities are presented that can enhance the support you offer.

Key features include:

  • a framework to guide you to use your knowledge and the available resources to maximum effect with deaf children and young people
  • clear explanations throughout built on wide research evidence to enable you to employ approaches that will make a difference
  • a set of adaptable checklists to provide efficient assessment to help planning
  • a focus on supporting communicative independence in collaboration with each deaf child and young person

Written in an accessible, engaging format, this book equips practitioners with a range of tools to support the development of communicative independence and includes reflective questions to consolidate knowledge. It is a must-read for any practitioner working with deaf children and young people and their families.

Über den Autor

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 was dual qualified as an SLT and a teacher for deaf children. She worked with deaf people from 1978, setting up and running specialist speech and language services for deaf children and for both deaf and deafened adults. She was 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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Fachbereich: Sonderpädagogik & Behindertenpädagogik
Genre: Erziehung & Bildung, Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781032289311
ISBN-10: 1032289317
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Beazley, Sarah
Halden, Judy
Hersteller: Taylor & Francis
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstr. 24, D-80331 München, gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com
Maße: 298 x 226 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Sarah Beazley (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.06.2025
Gewicht: 0,924 kg
Artikel-ID: 130236349

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