01024cam a2200193 4500 2031968 TxAuBib 20040315120000.0 110823s1999||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u TxAuBib Martha M. French. Starting with Assessment: A Developmental Approach to Deaf Children's Literacy. Washington, DC : 509, 1999. 2004 pp. sensory impairments. This book, including the separately bound appendices in The Toolkit, is about assessing the literacy development of children who are deaf. It examines assessment philosophies and tools that can guide educational planning during the preschool and elementary years. It describes a model of assessment for written language, reading and writing, that covers multiple areas of learning and stresses the importance of conversational language to literacy development. (2 parts.) 2 parts (books.) 20040315.