This collection unites expert scholars in a comprehensive survey of critical topics in bilingual deaf education.

Part 1: Seaworthy Construction: Theoretical Underpinnings of Bilingual Deaf Education 1. Two Centuries of Deaf Education and Deaf Agency in the United States 2. Sign Language Acquisition in Context 3. Iconicity: A Threat to ASL Recognition or a Window into Human Language Acquisition 4. The Acquisition of Motion Events in Verbs of Motion 5. Sustained Visual Attention in Deaf Children: A Deafcentric Perspective 6. Theoretical Underpinnings of Acquiring English via Print Part 2: Launching the Voyage: Bilingual Teaching Strategies for Deaf Students 7. Revisiting Rethinking Literacy 8. How Can You Talk About Bilingual Education of the Deaf If You Do Not Teach Sign Language as a First Language? 9. The Bedrock Literacy Curriculum 10. Crossing the Divide: The Bilingual Grammar Curriculum 11. The Relationship Between ASL Fluency and English Literacy 12. Using ASL to Navigate the Semantic Circuit in the Bilingual Mathematics Classroom Part 3: Sailing into the Wind: Challenges of Signed Language Assessment 13. Building the ASL Assessment Instrument 14. Assessing ASL Vocabulary Development 15. Assessing ASL: Comprehension, Narrative, and Phonological Awareness 16. The Legacy of Robert Hoffmeister: On the Importance of Supporting Deaf Scholars