Changing Parameters in Deafness and Deaf Education: Greater Opportunity but Continuing Diversity

Deaf Cognition: Foundations and Outcomes

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Leigh, Greg ^a  

^a Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cochlear implantation; Deaf children; Language learning; Universal newborn hearing screening

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921259529     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195368673.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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