Luke Collins is a researcher with the Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics (CRAL) at the University of Nottingham.

• Introduction Chapter 1 Defining empowerment and finding evidence of it in languageChapter 2 Assessing interventions for families of hearing impaired children Chapter 3 Assessing the VIG intervention for evidence of empowermentChapter 4 Observations: Indicators of empowerment from the VIG interventionChapter 5 Further application of the empowerment model Chapter 6 Discussion and concluding remarks Appendices Index

Luke Collins is a researcher with the Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics (CRAL) at the University of Nottingham.

• Introduction Chapter 1 Defining empowerment and finding evidence of it in languageChapter 2 Assessing interventions for families of hearing impaired children Chapter 3 Assessing the VIG intervention for evidence of empowermentChapter 4 Observations: Indicators of empowerment from the VIG interventionChapter 5 Further application of the empowerment model Chapter 6 Discussion and concluding remarks Appendices Index

Luke Collins is a researcher with the Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics (CRAL) at the University of Nottingham.

• Introduction Chapter 1 Defining empowerment and finding evidence of it in languageChapter 2 Assessing interventions for families of hearing impaired children Chapter 3 Assessing the VIG intervention for evidence of empowermentChapter 4 Observations: Indicators of empowerment from the VIG interventionChapter 5 Further application of the empowerment model Chapter 6 Discussion and concluding remarks Appendices Index