Working With Deaf Children and Young People - A Guide for Practitioners

This accessible book highlights the wide impact of deafness on aspects of communication and explores input, semantics, grammar and speech, and how practitioners can apply this knowledge in different contexts. Full of strategies and activities, it is a must-read for practitioners working with deaf children and young people and their families.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

This accessible book highlights the wide impact of deafness on aspects of communication and explores input, semantics, grammar and speech, and how practitioners can apply this knowledge in different contexts. Full of strategies and activities, it is a must-read for practitioners working with deaf children and young people and their families.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Beazley, Sarah Halden Beazley, Beazley Sarah, Judy Halden
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 26.05.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781032289304
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3228930-4
• No. of pages: 340
• Series: Working With
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Special education; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Nursing; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; EDUCATION / General, Teaching of students with learning difficulties, Speech and language disorders and therapy, Speech & language disorders & therapy, Nursing and ancillary services, Nursing & ancillary services, Audiology & otology, Audiology and otology