Includes bibliographical references and index.

Vol. 1 Perspectives on the history of deaf education / Harry G. Lang -- Demographic and achievement characteristics of deaf and hard-of-hearing students / Ross E. Mitchell and Michael A. Karchmer -- Curriculum : cultural and communicative contexts / Des Power and Greg Leigh -- Educational consequences of alternative school placements / Michael S. Stinson and Thomas N. Kluwin -- Early intervention : birth to three / Marilyn Sass-Lehrer -- Educational programming for deaf children with multiple disabilities : accommodating special needs / Harry Knoors and Mathijs P.J. Vervloed -- Processes and components of reading / Beverly J. Trezek, Ye Wang, and Peter V. Paul -- Approaches to reading instruction / Barbara R. Schirmer and Cheri Williams -- Writing : characteristics, instruction, and assessment / John A. Albertini and Sara Schley -- Bilingualism and literacy / Connie Mayer and C. Tane Akamatsu -- Deaf communities / Bencie Woll and Paddy Ladd -- Peer interactions of deaf and hard-of-hearing children / Shirin D. Antia ... [et al.] -- Social and emotional development of deaf children : family, school, and program effects / Rosemary Calderon and Mark Greenberg -- Parent-infant interactions : a transactional approach to understanding the development of deaf infants / Meg Traci and Lynne Sanford Koester -- Mental health and deaf adults / Irene W. Leigh and Robert Q. Pollard Jr. -- The development of American sign language and manually coded English systems / Brenda Schick -- Development of spoken language by deaf children / Peter J. Blamey and Julia Z. Sarant -- Expressing meaning : from prelinguistic communication to building vocabulary / Amy R. Lederberg and Jennifer S. Beal-Alvarez -- The role of cued speech in language development of deaf children /Jacqueline Leybaert, Mario Aparicio, and J�esus Alegria -- Formal and informal approaches to the language assessment of deaf children / Janet R. Jamieson and Noreen R. Simmons -- Assessing children's proficiency in natural signed languages / Jenny L. Singleton and Samuel J. Supalla -- Origins of sign languages / David F. Armstrong and Sherman Wilcox -- Sign language structures / Susan D. Fischer and Harry van der Hulst -- Modality and the structure of language : sign languages versus signed systems / Ronnie B. Wilbur -- Interpreters and interpreter education / Christine Monikowski and Elizabeth A. Winston -- The neural systems underlying sign language / Karen Emmorey -- Speech perception and spoken word recognition / Lynne E. Bernstein and Edward T. Auer Jr. -- Advances in the genetics of deafness / Kathleen S. Arnos and Arti Pandya -- Technologies for communication : status and trends / Judith E. Harkins and Matthew Bakke -- Screening and assessment of hearing loss in infants / Barbara Cone -- Cochlear implants : advances, issues, and implications / Patricia Elizabeth Spencer, Marc Marschark, and Linda J. Spencer -- Intellectual assessment of deaf people : a critical review of core concepts and issues / Susan J. Maller and Jeffery P. Braden -- Cognitive functioning in deaf adults and children / Marc Marschark and Loes Wauters -- Working memory, neuroscience, and language : evidence from deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals / Jerker Ronnberg -- What we know, what we don't know, and what we should know / Marc Marschark and Patricia Elizabeth Spencer.

Includes sign language.