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About Butte Publications

• New! No Limits
• It All Depends
• Introduction to Deaf Education
• Language Issues in Deaf Education
• Language Across the Curriculum
• Facilitating the Transition for Students Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
• Proactive Deaf Education: Cognitive Socialization
• The Young Deaf or Hard of Hearing Child
• Deaf Education at the Dawn of the 21st Century
• Global Perspectives on the Education of the Deaf

No Limits is designed as a textbook for use in programs preparing teachers to meet the educational needs of students who are deaf and hard of hearing. The information will also benefit practicing teachers and other professionals in the field of deaf education. Applicable for educators of the deaf at all grade levels, this resource examines an array of teaching skills, including enhancing comprehensible communication, selecting instructional models, teaching learning strategies, and increasing student motivation. In addition, the concluding chapter addresses the steps to become a professional teacher. Chapters that relate to Council on Education of the Deaf (CED) professional standards are identified in the book's preface. Features such as chapter objectives, figures, concrete examples, summaries, website destinations, chapter activities, and a glossary are provided to ensure that the text is both practice-oriented and reader-friendly.

It All Depends is a text supplement for use in foundations and methods courses. It can be useful in helping preservice teachers make important connections between knowledge and application of educational concepts and principles. Discussing cases and solutions to real problems encountered by teachers places preservice teachers in an authentic teacher role: continuously reflecting on pedagogical decisions to enhance student achievement. Not only are they expected to state what they would do but also why.

This casebook consists of five chapters: Communication Issues, Literacy Instruction, Content Instruction, Learner Differences, and Educational Planning. Each chapter has three case studies which reflect issues involved in teaching students who are deaf. The cases represent situations relevant to prospective teachers in grades K-12. The specific scenarios are drawn from direct experiences as a classroom teacher, observations of inservice teachers (as a consultant and curriculum specialist), and observations of preservice teachers (as a teacher educator).

Each case contains a scenario, reflection questions and extension activities.

• Deaf Teachers and Their Impact on American Education of the Deaf (Gannon)
• The Deaf Civil Rights Movement: Gallaudet Protest to the Present (Jordan)
• Parents of Deaf Children: Educational Implications (Hurwitz/Hurwitz)
• Deafness and Intelligence: A Multiperspective Viewpoint (Busby)
• Legislation and How it Affects Deaf People (Bienenstock)
• Educational Placement Options and the Unwritten Curriculum (Garretson)
• Early Intervention Programs: Critical Time for Deaf Children (Rose)
• Teachers of Young Deaf Adults (Bateman)
• Bilingual Education and the Deaf Child (Bailes/Tompkins)
• The Role of the Residential Program in the Ed. of the Deaf Child (Finneran)
• Other Modes of Communication (Vashista/Kendrick)

This "issues" text is designed for teachers-in-training and related service providers. It includes explanations of relevant linguistic theories and issues; assessment and facilitation of use, meaning, and form skills; definitions of languages and systems; ASL normative data, bilingual-bimodal models, language tips for general educators, and more! It's packed full of practical ideas, loads of diagrams and examples, study questions, resources and suggestions for applied activities. This text and its companion are a must-have for teacher training programs. Interactive activities to be accessed off the world wide web are now being developed.

This "methods" text is designed for teachers-in-training and related service providers. It includes chapters on mediated instruction, appropriate support and services, assessment and facilitation techniques for reading to students, having students read to adults, spelling, writing, math, social studies, socialization, audition, speech, and science to deaf as well as hard of hearing students, and much much more! It's packed full of practical ideas, loads of diagrams and examples, study questions, resources and suggestions for applied activities. This text and its companion are one-of-a-kind resources.

Facilitating the Transition
of Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
John L. Luckner

The technological and societal demands on young people who are deaf or hard of hearing are great. These students need systematic instruction and careful planning in making transition as smooth as possible. Consequently, transition planning is now a critical component of every student's education. The purpose of this book is to help professionals, students, and families become familiar with how to develop and implement individual transition plans for students who are deaf or hard of hearing. The knowledge gained from this book will increase the reader's ability to meet the transition mandates of the Individuals with Disabilities Act Amendments of 1997. In addition, the reader will have a better understanding of how to work in partnership with students, families, and professionals to develop appropriate transition plans and effective plans of study, which will in the long run help individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing reach their maximum potential and lead fulfilling adult lives.

Contents:
1. Potential Impact of a Hearing Loss
2. Education and Employment Outcomes
3. Rationale for Transition Planning
4. Barriers to Succeeding in Postsecondary Education Programs and Finding Competitive Employment
5. Successful Adult Functioning
6. A Model for Facilitating the Transition of Students
7. Fostering Student, Family, and Professional Teams' Participation
8. Assessment
9. Transition Planning
10. Work and Career Instruction
11. Adult Agencies
12. Postsecondary Education
13. Final Thoughts

Proactive Deaf Education:
Cognitive Socialization
Edited by John Muma & Henry Teller

Proactive Deaf Education is intended as a vehicle to launch the field into the substantive base of cognitive socialization. There are three discernible generations in the cognitive and language acquisition literature: traditional, psycholinguistic, and cognitive socialization. Given the developments in cognitive socialization over the past decade or so and their forthcoming impacts on Special Education, possibly in accordance with the National Agenda, it behooves Deaf Education to turn to this literature. Proactive Deaf Education begins with a general position statement derived from constructionism, and also focuses on relevance theory and bootstrapping theory. Various chapters pick up the theme of addressing these and other substantive issues with their attendant applications for Deaf Education.

Chapters include (with author name):

• Proactive Deaf Education: Cognitive socialization (John Muma & Henry Teller)
• Why deaf education needs to be theory oriented (John Muma & Henry Teller)
• Cognitive socialization: Implications for the classroom (Sharon Baker)
• Constructionism: A sociocultural approach to deaf education (Fran Hagstrom)
• Constructionism: From reinforcement to intent (Henry Teller)
• Multicultural language issues: A deaf culture (Steven Cloud)
• Deaf Education: Heterogeneity and the CCCE model (Susan Easterbrooks)
• Rationale: Something old, something new (John Muma & Fran Hagstrom)
• Grammatical assessment: Theory predicates practice (John Muma & Alfred White)

The Young Deaf or Hard of Hearing Child Edited by Barbara Bodner-Johnson and Marilyn Sass-Lehrer As deaf and hard of hearing children are identified at an increasingly early age, professionals need to expand their knowledge about early intervention and education for these young children and their families. This scholarly text from experts provides a solid foundation of research, key concepts, and practical suggestions. Preservice and in-service professionals will: learn to consider the family, community, and cultural and linguistic contexts of young deaf children examine key language and communication issues look at specfic educational factors consider major family-centered issues explore available services gain valuable insight from research

Essential reading for early childhood educators, education professionals, speech-language pathologists, and students. This comprehensive resource fully prepares readers for successful partnerships with families and their deaf or hard of hearing children.

This is a comprehensive text on the field of Deaf Education. Eternal issues such as reading, language, communication, teaching and trends and issues are covered historically and contemporarily. Relatively new issues which are now central to the field such as technology, cochlear implantation, school violence and discipline, international Deaf Education and Deaf Culture are covered in individual chapters. The book provides a picture of the challenges that have faced and continue to face the profession and offers new and creative directions to service providers and researchers; new ways of developing and implementing a best practice model in the 21st century.