Discussing Bilingualism in Deaf Children

Charlotte Enns is Professor in the Department of Educational Administration, Foundations and Psychology at University of Manitoba, Canada.Jonathan Henner is Assistant Professor in the School of Education at University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA.Lynn McQuarrie is Professor in the Department of Education Psychology at University of Alberta, Canada.

• Part 1: Seaworthy Construction: Theoretical Underpinnings of Bilingual Deaf Education 1. Two Centuries of Deaf Education and Deaf Agency in the United States 2. Sign Language Acquisition in Context 3. Iconicity: A Threat to ASL Recognition or a Window into Human Language Acquisition 4. The Acquisition of Motion Events in Verbs of Motion 5. Sustained Visual Attention in Deaf Children: A Deafcentric Perspective 6. Theoretical Underpinnings of Acquiring English via Print Part 2: Launching the Voyage: Bilingual Teaching Strategies for Deaf Students 7. Revisiting Rethinking Literacy 8. How Can You Talk About Bilingual Education of the Deaf If You Do Not Teach Sign Language as a First Language? 9. The Bedrock Literacy Curriculum 10. Crossing the Divide: The Bilingual Grammar Curriculum 11. The Relationship Between ASL Fluency and English Literacy 12. Using ASL to Navigate the Semantic Circuit in the Bilingual Mathematics Classroom Part 3: Sailing into the Wind: Challenges of Signed Language Assessment 13. Building the ASL Assessment Instrument 14. Assessing ASL Vocabulary Development 15. Assessing ASL: Comprehension, Narrative, and Phonological Awareness 16. The Legacy of Robert Hoffmeister: On the Importance of Supporting Deaf Scholars