Table of Contents

Dedication
Preface

Chapter 1: Great Expectations: An Introduction
Chapter 2: What Can My Baby Hear?
Chapter 3: Welcome to the World: The Prenatal Period to 3 Months
Chapter 4: Early Parenting Goals: Nurturing and Supporting Development in the First 3 Months
Chapter 5: Why Is Early Learning So Important: 3 to 6 Months
Chapter 6: Learning, Feeling, and Communicating: 3 to 6 Months
Chapter 7: On the Move: 6 to 12 Months
Chapter 8: Little Communicators: 6 to 12 Months
Chapter 9: The Symbol Users: Representing, Remembering, Recreating: 12 to18 Months
Chapter 10: Almost Two and Look What's New! 18 to 24 Months
Chapter 11: Little Psychologists and Budding Linguists: From Two to Three Years Old
Chapter 12: Where We Are...and Where We are Going

References
Resources and Websites for Parents and Professionals

About the Author

Patricia Elizabeth Spencer has been a teacher, assessment specialist, and educational advocate for deaf and hard-of-hearing students (including those with multiple learning challenges) across the age range of infancy through post-graduate levels. Her work at the Gallaudet Research Institute focused on early interaction, play, and language development. She has worked internationally as a researcher and educational consultant and has written extensively on issues
related to development and education of deaf and hard-of-hearing children.

Lynne Sanford Koester retired after 25 years of teaching developmental psychology at the University of Montana and at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. She has also worked in Ethiopia, Austria, and Germany, and is the former Director of the Intercultural Youth and Family Development graduate program at her university. Her research has focused primarily on infant development within the family context - parenting behaviors and cultural influences, early parent-child interactions, and
intuitive parenting.

Reviews

"The strength of this book comes through in the underlying messages that underpin effective early intervention in deaf education. The authors consistently emphasize the importance of meeting individual needs, supporting and empowering families, and the parent-child relationshipEL As a hearing professional, I found these intuitive visual communication strategies fascinating and could identify deaf children with hearing parents that would hugely benefit in this
wayEL I imagine this book becoming a key text for Deaf Education programs as well as an informative read for parents and other professionals new to the subject. The content is thorough and effectively
bridges the gap between research and practice." -Suzanne Williams, review in Deafness & Education International