Deaf adults
Peripheral Visual Reaction Time Is Faster in Deaf Adults and British Sign Language Interpreters than in Hearing Adults
... normal adults. The cohort tested included profoundly congenitally deaf adults (N = 17), hearing fluent BSL users (N = 8) and hearing non-signing adults (N = ...test deaf and hearing ...
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Peripheral visual reaction time is faster in deaf adults and British Sign Language interpreters than in hearing adults
... between deaf and hearing groups and not between BSL and hearing or between BSL and deaf ...This deaf advantage at these far eccentricities is consistent with Swisher et ...that deaf ...
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Visual Advantage in Deaf Adults Linked to Retinal Changes
... in deaf persons, our results suggest that the RNFL may reorganise to preferentially distribute RGCs to the far monocular temporal visual field and even subtly reduce the RGC resource to central ...in deaf ...
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Self awareness in young deaf adults
... Chris attends a College of Further Education for the Deaf, to learn motor vehicle body repair skills. He is an ordinary looking young man. The interview took place in the College office. Chris could fingerspell ...
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Adaptive benefit of cross modal plasticity following cochlear implantation in deaf adults
... Anderson CA, Lazard DS, & Hartley DEH 2017 Plasticity in bilateral superior temporal cortex: Effects of deafness and cochlear implantation on auditory and visual speech processing.. Stre[r] ...
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Adaptive benefit of cross modal plasticity following cochlear implantation in deaf adults
... Change in cross-modal activation of bilateral STC by visual speech ∆ beta weight; arbitrary units from T0 to T1 is plotted against the duration of bilateral hearing loss prior to implant[r] ...
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Life Stories of Saudi Deaf Individuals
... Therefore, Deaf culture has been around since the founding of deaf schools where communications and interactions among deaf students occurred in natu- ral environments; these schools helped to create ...
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Documenting an Endangered Sign Language: Constructing a Corpus of Langue des Signes Malienne (CLaSiMa)
... However, this approach was challenged in several ways. As in earlier research in West Africa with signers without formal education (Nyst, 2007), monolingual signers appeared to be uncomfortable retelling the canary row ...
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Sign bilingualism in education-policy and practice
... that deaf pupils are supported in accessing the hidden curriculum irrespective whether it is of educational value or just a classroom ...the deaf pupil about everything that is happening (just as a BSL ...
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Proposal: an enhanced reading program for young deaf/HH students
... It is therefore important for teachers to take a closer, more comprehensive look at the ways in which deaf adults interact with deaf children during literacy promoting activities, so tha[r] ...
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Peer to Peer Multiliteracies:a new concept of accessibility
... with deaf people at as many levels as we ...at deaf learners, and as explained above now works with young children as well as deaf ...enable deaf children to succeed (Murray et ...are ...
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SIGNALL: A European Partnership Approach to Deaf Studies via New Technologies
... few Deaf teachers - most Deaf people are employed within the educational system as Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) who tend to work beyond their intended function by acting as interpreters in the classroom ...
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Suicide in deaf populations: a literature review
... either deaf (complete hearing loss) or partially deaf (hearing ...for deaf people in the intervening period would have made the findings from older studies less relevant to current ...
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The Level of Neuromuscular Coordination between Hearing Impairment Compared with the Healthy in Jordan
... and deaf FEMALE ...and deaf FEMALE students mentioned it was clear that the comparisons on holes ...than deaf students on holes with diameters ...the deaf females’ students was better on holes ...
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Visual Abilities in Profound Deafness: A Window into the Mechanisms of Multisensory Perception
... attention, deaf showed again better change sensitivity at central than peripheral locations, however this advantage for central locations emerged for the other groups of participants as well (F(2,56) = ...
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Personal Experiences of a Deaf Law Student, with Updated Foreword
... Our early intervention and education system continue to produce generations of Deaf children who are language deprived. Deaf education advocates are careful to emphasiz[r] ...
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Policy Report on “Peer to Peer Deaf Literacy” (P2PDL)
... Therefore, we recommend a one-year training programme for deaf sign language users to become “Language and Literacy Trainers”. The academic project team are able to produce a curriculum and train the first ...
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Enablers of help-seeking for deaf children and children with disabilities following abuse and barriers to protection : a qualitative study
... The marginalisation of deaf and disabled children within formal services also emerged as a concern. As reported in previous research (Taylor et al. 2014, Stalker et al. 2010), practitioners sometimes rely on ...
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Curriculum project proposal: deaf art students using K-W-L strategy
... This project used K-W-L with a group of six deaf students at Rochester school for the Deaf to determine facilitated their ability to find appropriate if it information a subject, and to [r] ...
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The psychological/social impact of cochlear implants
... became deaf and their receiving an implant to be a ...the deaf world” (Non-CI user #82); “Individual reactions” (Non-CI user #144); and “Some yes – others no” (Non-CI use ...
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