Assessing Literacy in Deaf Individuals Neurocognitive Measurement and Predictors /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Morere, Donna (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Allen, Thomas (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Θέματα: Psychology.; Speech pathology.; Applied linguistics.; Language and education.; Neuropsychology.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Child and School Psychology.; Applied Linguistics.; Speech Pathology.; Language Education.

Humans’ development of literacy has been a recent focus of intense research across the reading, cognitive, and neuroscience fields. But for individuals who are deaf—who rely greatly on their visual skills for language and learning—the findings don’t necessarily apply, leaving theoretical and practic...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• Section I. Rationale and Participant Characteristics
• Chapter 1. The “Toolkit Project”: Introduction
• Chapter 2. The VL2 Toolkit Psychometric Study: Summary of procedures and description of sample characteristics
• Section II. Cognitive Functioning
• Chapter 3.  Measures of General Cognitive Functioning
• Chapter 4. Measures of Visuospatial Ability
• Chapter 5. Measures of Memory and Learning
• Section III. Academic Achievement
• Chapter 6. Measures of Reading Achievement
• Chapter 7. Measures of Writing, Math, and General Academic Knowledge
• Section IV. Linguistic functioning
• Chapter 8. Measures of Expressive Language
• Chapter 9. Measures of Receptive Language
• Chapter 10. Fingerspelling
• Chapter 11. Issues and Trends in Sign Language Assessment
• Chapter 12. Analysis of Responses to Lipreading Prompts as a Window to Deaf Students’ Writing Strategies
• Section V. Further Analyses and Translational Implications
• Chapter 13. Underlying Neurocognitive and Achievement Factors and Their Relationship to Student Background Characteristics.