The World of Deaf Infants
A Longitudinal Study (Perspectives on Deafness)
"The World of Deaf Infants presents the results of a 15-year research study. Through their research, perhaps the largest long-term comparison of deaf and hearing infants, Meadow-Orlans's team provides a comprehensive and intimate look into the world of deaf infants. For a core group of 80 families that included all four combinations of parent-infant hearing status, data were collected longitudinally at 9, 12, 15, and 18 months, and mother-infant interactions were recorded and observed in both structured and unstructured settings. Mothers' facial, vocal, and tactile behaviors during interactions were related to infants' temperament and stress; mothers' linguistic and communication behaviors, as well as their overall responsiveness, were related to children's language; and the effects of support provided to mothers were evaluated and explored. The results were dramatic, particularly with regard to infant attachment behaviors and the importance of visual attention in the overall development of deaf infants. This comprehensive work provides a foundation on which researchers, teachers, students, and parents can build to further enhance the world of deaf infants."--BOOK JACKET.
Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Mental Health. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.
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Mental Health
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- ISBN-13
- 978-0-1951-4790-2
- Language
- English
- Edition record
- OL7389830M
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A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.
Begin with its place in Mental Health, then notice where the book resists that label.
Read for connection, not completion.
Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.
Three questions to carry with you
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- Where does the author distinguish evidence, experience, and opinion?
- What would a small, humane experiment with one idea look like?
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