Interactive learning technology holds great promise for improving the education of deaf children. This book in the NATO Special Programme on Advanced Educational Technology is based on a multidisciplinary workshop and presents contributions by experts on the fields of deaf education and interactive learning technology.

Autorentext
Prof. Dr. Ir. Frans Coninx hat technische Physik studiert, ist promovierter Audiopädagoge und Hörgeschädigtenpädagoge mit Lehrstuhl an der Heilpädagogischen Fakultät der Universität zu Köln sowie Leiter des der Universität angegliederten Instituts für Audiopädagogik (IfAP).

Inhalt
Design and Evaluation of Interactive Instruction as a Communicative Dialogue.- The Use of an Individual Word-Base in a Classroom Environment.- Multimodality: a Theoretical Argument for Multimedia Interactive Learning.- Deaf Children Learning in a Multimedial Environment.- A Multimodality and Multimedia Approach to Language, Discourse, and Literacy Development.- Linguistic and Educational Principles of the Computer Aided Language Learning Software A.D.A.M. & E.V.E.- Grammar in a Visual Mode: an Alternative for Hearing- Impaired Children?.- Computer Interactive Techniques in Training and Evaluation of Communication Skills.- Design and Evaluation of Interactive Training Programs for Speech Reading and Hearing Skills (ISEG) for Children and Adolescents with a Profound Hearing Impairment.- ALLAO - an Interactive Videodisc for Teaching Lipreading.- Voice and Intonation - Analysis, Presentation and Training.- Teaching Intonation to Deaf Persons through Visual Displays.- Conceptual and Technical Considerations in Developing Visual Aids for Speech Training.- Sprach - Farbbild - Transformation (SFT): the Conversion of Sound to Coloured Light as a Visual Aid in Speech Therapy.- The Development and Application of the IBM SpeechViewer.- Multimedia Dictionary of American Sign Language.- A Computer Dictionary for Subject Specific Signs.- Machine Recognition of Human Gestures.- A Multi-Media System for the Teaching of Sign Language.- Glossary for the Deaf - A Laservision Sign Language Dictionary.- Interactive Introduction of the Logical Bases of a Communication System.