"Psychological Processes in Deaf Children with Complex Needs" is a concise and authoritative guide for professionals working with deaf children and their families. The effects of hearing impairments on learning, social development and family life can be profound. They can impact on attachment, parenting and family interaction, and can affect cognitive and neuropsychological processes including perception and memory.This guide draws on the latest evidence to explain the impact of hearing impairment and uses case studies to focus on the key issues for assessment and intervention. It also suggests practical strategies for treatment and development for those working with hearing impaired children.
Author(s): Lindsey Edwards, Susan Crocker
Edition: 1
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 204
front cover......Page 1
Psychological Processes in Deaf
Children with Complex Needs:
An Evidence-Based Practical Guide......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
FOREWORD by Mark Marschark
......Page 13
PREFACE
......Page 15
The epidemiology, types and causes of childhood deafness......Page 21
Diagnosing sensori-neural hearing loss......Page 23
Interventions for hearing loss......Page 24
The impact of deafness on the child and family......Page 25
Conclusions......Page 41
2
Behavioural and Emotional Disorders......Page 42
Epidemiology......Page 43
Why are deaf children at greater risk of
behavioural disorders?......Page 45
Communication, deafness and behavioural disorders......Page 46
Common behavioural disorders in deaf children......Page 48
Assessment......Page 54
Formulation of behavioural problems and disorders......Page 57
Intervention......Page 59
Promoting effective communication......Page 60
Conclusions......Page 62
3
Self-concept, Self-esteem and the Development of Identity......Page 63
Terminology......Page 64
Deaf culture and Deaf identity......Page 66
Theories of identity development......Page 67
Research......Page 69
Clinical presentations of identity or self-esteem problems in deaf
children......Page 76
Assessment and formulation......Page 78
Intervention......Page 82
Conclusions......Page 85
4
Specific Learning Difficulties......Page 87
Definitions of specific learning difficulties......Page 88
Theory and research......Page 90
Assessment of specific learning difficulties......Page 95
Assessment of non-verbal cognitive abilities......Page 97
Assessment of specific types of learning difficulties......Page 98
5
Disorders of Communication......Page 108
Deafness or communication disorder?......Page 109
Autistic spectrum disorder......Page 115
Aetiology and epidemiology of ASD in the deaf population......Page 116
Presentation of ASD in deaf children......Page 117
Outcome research......Page 118
Theoretical perspectives......Page 119
Assessment and diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorders......Page 125
Conclusions......Page 133
6
Paediatric Cochlear Implantation......Page 134
Why cochlear implants and clinical psychology?......Page 135
Research......Page 136
Assessment for paediatric cochlear implantation......Page 137
Decision to implant and consen......Page 150
Switch-on and post-implant......Page 154
Conclusions......Page 155
Clinical presentation and aetiology......Page 157
Epidemiology......Page 158
Impact of tinnitus in children......Page 159
Traditional interventions......Page 162
Background to narrative therapy......Page 163
What is narrative therapy?......Page 164
Interviewing the young child......Page 165
The initial interview......Page 166
Assessment and formulation......Page 167
Intervention and narrative therapy techniques......Page 168
Conclusions......Page 172
8
Professional Issues......Page 174
Political context......Page 175
Training deaf clinical pyschologists......Page 177
Roles, responsibilities and ethics......Page 179
Working with cultural and ethnic diversity......Page 181
Working with interpreters......Page 184
Consultative/liaison model of intervention......Page 185
Conclusions......Page 187
REFERENCES
......Page 189
SUBJECT INDEX
......Page 201
AUTHOR INDEX
......Page 205
back cover......Page 208
