Starting with Assessment

A Developmental Approach to Deaf Children's Literacy

Plot

The text begins by presenting principles to guide assessment based on current theories about learning. The author then moves on to discuss the development of language and literacy,building a developmental picture that accounts for individual needs and skills while nothing where each child fits within a broad framework for development .Subsequent chapters and their closely-related appendices describe tools and strategies to help teachers assess reading, writing , and conversational language, and for involving the children,their parents, and other educators in the process. The text concludes with a look at the benefits and possible drawbacks of current approaches, and discusses guidelines and methods for literacy planning,instruction and record keeping.