Educational Responses to Varying Objectives of Parents of Deaf Children: A Dutch Perspective

In 1999, Mary Brennan wrote “By recognising the child as, in effect, a ‘little linguist’ we are also recognising the power and effectiveness of the child's linguistic capacity” (<cross-ref type="bib" refid="bib4">Brennan, 1999</cross-ref>). The recognition of the power and effectiveness of deaf children's linguistic capacity needs to be taken a step further. Focus should be on the conditions in the children's environments necessary to develop their linguistic capacity to its fullest potential and to enhance the use of this capacity in academic and social learning. This leads to the... Mehr ...