A World of Language For Deaf Children Part 1. Basic Principles A Maternal Reflective Method

Van Uden, A. (Professor Emeritus Sir Alexander Ewing, M.A.,Ph.D., L.L.D.

Father Van Uden was a prolific author, an influential thinker and an inspirational speaker, who travelled the world to share the extraordinary practice that developed with profoundly deaf children and young people in Sint Michielsgestel in the Netherlands in the 1950s and 1960s.

The special school context in which Van Udens Maternal Reflective approach evolved looks extraordinary to modern eyes more than 550 profoundly deaf children being educated in one place, with many young people living away from home. It reflected standard practice at the time, when the integration or inclusion of deaf children into mainstream schools was unusual, and before technology developed to deliver the quality of acoustic information that is available today. However, this environment created conditions in which an unusual depth of understanding of deaf childrens learning could develop, underpinned by a range of associated research activity.

Paul Simpson was fortunate enough to meet him for the first time as a young teacher and to spend three months attending his lectures in Holland in the early 1980s, at which time he was simply an inspiration a learned and generous mentor, who was uncompromising in his ambitions for deaf children and in his expectations of himself and other people.

Binding: Hard cover with dust jacket. Good condition except there for the previous owners name inside and a small tear at the bottom of the dust jackets spine.

Book Condition: Fairly good. Intact with a non-removable plastic cover and a previous owners name inside.

Edition: 1973

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