Deaf Education Beyond the Western World: Context, Challenges, and Prospects

Harry Knoors, Ph.D., is Professor at the Behavioral Science Institute of the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and Academic Director at Royal Dutch Kentalis. Knoors is trained as a psycholinguist, specializing in language and literacy of deaf children. He is involved in research on childhood deafness (mainly language, literacy, and psychosocial development) and research on the effectiveness of special education.Maria Brons, Ph.D., is Manager of Kentalis International Foundation at Royal Dutch Kentalis, responsible for design, fundraising, and implementation of international knowledge exchange programs for professionals working in the field of education, care and diagnostics for children with hearing loss, deafblindness, multiple disability, and autism. She is a political scientist and international development economist, and has previously published on critical security studies andstate-society relations as well as lately on inclusive education as a win-win concept.Marc Marschark, Ph.D., is Professor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a college of Rochester Institute of Technology, where he directs the Center for Education Research Partnerships. His primary interest is in relations among language, learning, and cognition; current research focuses on such relations among deaf children and adults in formal and informal educational settings.