Helping Children Who Are Deaf (2004)
Chapter 9: Learning to use a spoken language................................................... 105
Help your child learn speech sounds...... 106
Pay attention to how words are said....... 112
Help your child learn his first words....... 107
Help your child learn more words.......... 114
Encourage your child to answer
simple questions...................................... 111
Understanding groups of words.............. 116
Learning to use groups of words............. 118
Chapter 10: Social skills......................................................................................... 121
How children learn social skills.............. 122
How to manage your child’s behavior..... 125
Deafness makes it harder to learn
social skills............................................... 124
How to encourage a child’s
social development.................................. 132
Chapter 11: Working together to help children who are deaf........................... 139
What is your community?....................... 139
Making the community a better place
for children who are deaf........................ 142
Forming support groups.......................... 146
Bring deaf children together with
other deaf people..................................... 147
Everyone benefits from efforts to
support deaf children.............................. 149
Chapter 12: Education............................................................................................ 151
Schools and language............................. 154
Deaf children in classes with
hearing children...................................... 155
Deaf children in their own group........... 157
Good schools meet deaf children’s
needs........................................................ 160
Good schools prepare a child to
make a living........................................... 164
Chapter 13: Preventing child sexual abuse ........................................................ 167
Some facts about child sexual abuse...... 168
Why are deaf children at risk?................ 169
Preventing sexual abuse......................... 171
How can I know if my child has
been abused?........................................... 176
If your child has been abused................. 177
Chapter 14: Support for parents and caregivers................................................. 179
When you first learn your child
cannot hear well...................................... 180
Understanding your emotions................ 181
Managing the stress of caregiving.......... 182
Parents’ groups........................................ 184
Planning for action................................. 187
Chapter 15: Why children lose their hearing and what we can do ................ 191
Ear infection............................................ 193
Something blocks sound in the ear......... 198
Childhood illnesses.................................. 201
Medicines that damage hearing............. 206
Women’s health can damage or
protect children’s hearing........................ 207
Loud noises and injury............................ 213
Hearing loss passed down in families..... 215
Appendix A: Hearing aids....................................................................................... 219
Appendix B: Cochlear implants and hearing...................................................... 227
Appendix C: Child development charts................................................................ 231
Where to get more information............................................................................. 239