Literacy and Deaf Education: Toward a Global Understanding

Contents
Foreword ixDonald F. Moores and Margery Miller
Preface xiJean F. Andrews and Qiuying Wang
Acknowledgments
Part I. South and Central America
	1 TECLAS: A Reading Comprehension Intervention for Chilean Deaf Adolescents • María Rosa Lissi, Christian Sebastián, Martín Vergara, Cristián Iturriaga, Catalina Henríquez, and Sergio Hofmann
	2 Language and Literacy in Colombia for Deaf Students: A Sociocultural Backdrop • Luz Mary López Franco and Martha Lucia Osorno Posada Ma
	3 School Literacy of Deaf People in Brazil • Cátia de Azevedo Fronza, Barbara Gerner de Garcia, and Lodenir Becker Karnopp
	4 “We Have Conflicting Cultures Here”: Transnational Third Spaces in International Deaf Education in Mexico • Jessica Armytage Scott, Sue Kasun, and Fabiola Ruiz Bedolla
Part II. North America
	5 Rapid Automatized Naming and Reading With Deaf Students Using American Sign Language • Sarah Boehm
	6 Access to and Accessibility of Language: Implications on Literacy • Marlon Kuntze and Debbie Golos
	7 Comprehension of Written Grammar in Canada: Reading Comprehension and English Grammar Knowledge Across a Diverse d/Deaf or Hard of Hearing Population • Joanna E. Cannon, Anita M. Hubley, Julia O’Loughlin, and Lauren Phelan
Part III. Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
	8 The Developmental Ease of Language Understanding Model and Literacy Acquisition: Evidence from Deaf and Hard of Hearing Signing Children • Emil Holmer and Mary Rudner
	9 Literacy Development of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in Greece • Kleopatra Diakogiorgi, Venetta Lampropoulou, and Anatoli Makarona
	10 Language and Literacy Planning: Critical Issues in Deaf Education in Kenya • Millicent M. Musyoka
	11 Saudi Deaf Students and Literacy: Contextual Issues, Considerations, and Teacher Practices • Ahmed Alzahrani, Ghithan S. Alamri, Abdulhadi A. Alamri, and Farraj Alqarni
Part IV. China
	12 Chinese Manual Alphabet, Chinese Finger Syllabary, and Development of Chinese Literacy Skills • Ye Wang, Peter V. Paul, Junhui Yang, and Onudeah D. Nicolarakis
	13 Deaf Chinese Adults: Sociocultural Reflections on Learning to Read Chinese • Gabrielle A. Jones and Jenny L. Singleton
	14 Semantic and Phonological Processing Among Chinese Deaf Readers • Ming Yan, Jinger Pan, Jochen Laubrock, and Hua Shu
Part V. East Asia
	15 Reading and Writing Instruction for Young Deaf Children Using Taiwan Sign Language • Yi-Li Lin and Fang-Huai Ku
	16 Chinese Literacy: Factors, Outcomes, and Practices for Deaf Students in Taiwan • Hsiu Tan Liu and Chun Jung Liu
	17 Chinese Vocabulary Development of Deaf and Hearing Children in a Sign-Bilingualism and Co-Enrollment Program in Hong Kong • Qun Li and Gladys Tang
	18 Literacy Education for Japanese Deaf Children • Norie Oka and Michiko Sasaki
	19 Literacy Education for Deaf Studentsin South Korea Today • Yunjae Hwang and Junghae Lee
Epilogue
Contributors
About the Editors
Index