Essential Readings on Stress and Coping
Among Parents of Deaf and Hearing-Impaired Children

Contents
Editor's Foreword

ix
Terry Feher-Prout
Stress and Coping in Families with Deaf Children

1
Charlene M. Kampfe
Parental Reaction to a Child’s Hearing Impairment

21
Idalia Mapp
Stress and Coping among Black and Hispanic Parents of
Deaf and Hearing-Impaired Children: A Review of the Literature

31
McCay Vernon and James M. Wallrabenstein
The Diagnosis of Deafness in a Child

49
Donald F. Moores, Jerry Jatho and Cynthia Dunn
Families with Deaf Members:
American Annals of the Deaf, 1996-2000

57
Annie G. Steinberg, Jose R. Davila, Jorge Collazo, Sr.,
Ruth C. Loew and Joseph E. Fischgrund
“A Little Sign and a Lot of Love . . . “: Attitudes, Perceptions,
and Beliefs of Hispanic Families with Deaf Children

69
Robert H. MacTurk, Kathryn P. Meadow-Orlans,
Lynne S. Koester and Patricia E. Spencer
Social Support, Motivation, Language and Interaction:
A Longitudinal Study of Mothers and Deaf Infants

88
Joseph E. Fischgrund, Oscar P. Cohen and
Richard L. Clarkson
Hearing-Impaired Children in Black and Hispanic Families

104
Amy R. Lederberg and Traci Golbach
Parenting Stress and Social Support in Hearing Mothers
Of Deaf and Hearing Children: A Longitudinal Study

115
J. B. Tavormina, T. J. Boll, N. J. Dunn,
R. L. Luscomb, and J. R. Taylor
Psychosocial Effects on Parents of Raising a
Physically Handicapped Child

140
Annie Steinberg, Lisa Bain, Yuelin Li,
Gilbert Delgado, and Vivian Ruperto
Decisions Hispanic Families Make After the 150
Identification of Deafness

150
McCay Vernon
Psychodynamics Surrounding the Diagnosis of a Child's Deafness

174
William Isham and Leon Kamin
Blackness, Deafness, IQ and g

183
Permissions

194

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