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Mathos, Kimberly K.; Broussard, Elsie R. – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2005
Nationwide, there are some 1,055,000 young people under the age of 18 who have hearing loss according to statistics from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (http://www.nidcd.nih.gov). Reported rates of psychiatric disorders for children who have hearing loss range from 15.4% to 54% (Hindley, 1997). Selected…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Communication Disorders, American Sign Language, Hearing Impairments
Marschark, Marc – 1997
This book discusses the development of children who are deaf or hard of hearing and the educational and practical issues that face them and their families. Chapters discuss: (1) the effect of a child with deafness on a family, and family adjustment to early childhood hearing loss; (2) the population of people who are deaf, the causes of early…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Child Development, Child Rearing, Coping