This careful and balanced overview provides a new psychological perspective on deaf children and deafness while debunking a number of popular notions about the hearing impaired, and forges an integrated understanding of social, language, and cognitive development as they are affected by childhood deafness.

Marc Marschark, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

• 1: The Development of Deaf Children: Issues and Orientations


• 2: The Nature and Scope of Deafness


• 3: The Early Years: The Social-Emotional Context of Development


• 4: Social and Personality Development During the School Years


• 5: Foundations of Language Development in Deaf Children


• 6: Language Acquisition


• 7: Intelligence and Cognitive Development


• 8: Short-Term Memory: The Development of Memory Coding


• 9: Long-Term Memory: Codes, Organization, and Strategies


• 10: Creativity and Flexibility: The Myth(?) of Concreteness


• 11: Learning to Read and Write


• 12: The Development of Deaf Children: Toward an Integrated View