Decades of research have demonstrated that deaf children generally lag behind hearing peers in terms of academic achievement, and that lags in some areas may never be overcome fully. Hundreds of research and intervention studies have been aimed at improving the situation, but they have resulted in only limited progress. This paper examines…

Decades of research on educational and basic scientific questions relating to deaf children have yielded a wealth of knowledge about how they learn and develop as thinking, social, problem-solving individuals. However, we currently lack channels for communication from teachers to researchers about the priorities in education and from researchers…

This paper considers ethical issues surrounding the education of students with significant hearing losses. Rather than focusing on history or current challenges, it looks ahead to the not-too-distant future to examine the likely collision of ethics, pedagogy and politics. To a large extent, ethical issues looming on the horizon can be tied back to…