Contents
Foreword | Donald F. Moores and Margery Miller
Preface | Jean 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 | Catia 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 Students in South Korea Today | Yunjae Hwang and Junghae Lee
Epilogue
Contributors
About the Editors
Index