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.

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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.