Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies, Language, and Education, Volume 1The field of deaf studies, language, and education has grown dramatically over the past forty years. From work on the linguistics of sign language and parent child interactions to analyses of school placement and the the mapping of brain function in deaf individuals, research across a range of disciplines has greatly expanded not just our knowledge of deafness and the deaf, but also the very origins of language, social interaction, and thinking. In