Pamela Knight and Ruth Swanwick are both qualified teachers of the deaf and lecturers in the School of Education at the University of Leeds where they are involved in all areas of teacher education including the training of teachers of the deaf. The focus of Ruth Swanwick's experience and research is deaf children who require access to both sign language and English for their education. Pamela Knight's areas of research have been with the families of young deaf children and with their early experiences in school.
Introduction
PART I - An Introduction to Deafness
1. What it Means to be Deaf
2. Ways of Looking at Deafness
PART II - The Young Deaf Child
3. Family and Professionals
4. Home and the Wider World
5. Language Choices at Home
PART III - Deaf Children and Sign Language
6. Becoming Bilingual
7. Deaf Children and Sign Language
PART IV - Going to School
8. Educational Choices
9. Finding Your Way Around the System
10. The Deaf Child in School
11. Learning to Read and Write
Conclusion