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Promoting Resilience: Suggestions for Families, Professionals, and Students

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The majority of children who are deaf mature and become healthy adults who have fulfilling relationships and meaningful careers and they contribute to society. Unfortunately, the professional literature in the field of deaf education tends to be oriented toward deficiencies and problems. This chapter stresses a strength-based perspective and begins by presenting the results of three small-scale studies that examined the perceptions of successful students, adults, and families. Central themes from those studies are presented and then interwoven with a summary of practical suggestions for promoting resilience.

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Luckner, J. (2011). Promoting Resilience: Suggestions for Families, Professionals, and Students. In: Zand, D., Pierce, K. (eds) Resilience in Deaf Children. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7796-0_8

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