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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Deafness”

• PhillyBurbs.com: Now he can hear what he was missing

  
  disabilityresourcelinks.com — Authority: 148
    PhillyBurbs.com:  Now he can hear what he was missing
  23 hours ago

• Understanding Acquired deaf and Menieres.

  
  At The Rim — Authority: 124
  Lets call her Mary, it was her name after all. I first met Mary when I attended lip-reading classes 15 years ago, she had as well as near and profound deafness, Menieres disease. Menieres is bloody awful, no doubt about it. Mary told me she would lose her balance all the time, and she lived alone, we heard from a ...
  1 day ago

• Understanding Acquired deaf culture...

  
  At The Rim — Authority: 124
  Since Paddy Ladd has conveniently dismissed us as deaf it is time us worms turned and put some perspective on what being deaf is. Write Hear (AN text page on the BBCs ceefax), which I still find usually the font of real issues mostly, had a letter today from Jimmy Craw, a man I have had great respect for years, who ...
  2 days ago

• How Our Brains Can Fill In The Gaps To Create Continuous Sound

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 703
  It is relatively common for listeners to "hear" sounds that are not really there. In fact, it is the brains ability to reconstruct fragmented sounds that allows us to successfully carry on a conversation in a noisy room. Now, a new study helps to explain what happens in the brain that allows us to perceive a ...
  3 days ago

• University of Montevallo

  
  Cochlear Kids — Authority: 121
  For those students at the University of Montevallo, here he is (no matter what he said about his little sister tonight) blowing her toes after hes just painted them (this pic is only a couple of months old)... Im very proud of little man, tonight he gave his first "presentation" to the up and coming Deaf ed and ...
  6 days ago

• Effects of Age on the Temporal Organization of Working Memory in Deaf Signers

  
  COMD News — Authority: 156
  Deaf native signers have a general working memory (WM) capacity similar to that of hearing non-signers but are less sensitive to the temporal order of stored items at retrieval. General WM capacity declines with age, but little is known of how cognitive aging affects WM function in deaf signers. We investigated WM ...
  6 days ago

• The Transformation Project

  
  Citizenseye — Authority: 147
  Informal Learning Activities to change lives Who for? D/deaf, Deafened, Hard of Hearing, Deafblind members over the age of 19, living in Leicestershire and Rutland area. Activities: Some ideas of FREE activities for you to choose from, but we need your views NOW! What do you think? Acting Skills Beauty and ...
  6 days ago

• Action Deafness – comments

  
  Citizenseye — Authority: 147
  Editor: Many people will have followed the ongoing issues between some members of the Deaf community and Action Deafness. I have been a supporter of Action Deafness since first getting involved in promoting their many events and services through Sarah Vann & her IAG work. In the interest of fairness I have fully ...
  6 days ago

• A new study sheds light on the origins of language

  
  My Green Meadows — Authority: 439
  Harpo Marx via last.fm A new study sheds light on the origins of language   // According to new research funded by the national Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), your ability to make sense of Groucho ’s words and Harpo ’s pantomines in an old Marx Brothers ...
  1 week ago

• Good to meet you: Brenda Larkin

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  A reader tells of her love of G2, Suduoku and cost-saving tips in Money as well as a project involving young deaf Nepalis My husband and I have been reading the Guardian for years. On weekdays I start with G2 – Im addicted to the Sudoku puzzle. He always starts with Sport and usually beats me to getting to the main ...
  1 week ago

• Six-Year-Old Girl ‘On Verge Of Never Hearing Again’ Due To Insurance Company Denial

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  by Zaid Jiliani Think Progress.org **Nice call, assholes! - JS One of the worst abuses of the private health insurance industry is its practice of denying claims to pay for necessary care for patients. This practice has become so rampant in the industry that a recent study by the California Nurses ...
  1 week ago

• Google to Caption YouTube Videos

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  The move is the first major step toward making millions of videos accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired people.
  1 week ago

• Winter Wonderland Event

  
  Citizenseye — Authority: 147
  Students from Leicester College have teamed up with Action Deafness to create a “Winter Wonderland” event opening on Monday 7th December 2009 at 6.30pm. There will be mince pies, mulled wine, a band and a choir. Christmas trees of all shapes, sizes and decorations will be on display at Action Deafness. The trees ...
  1 week ago

• The Transformation Project is coming to Action Deafness….

  
  Citizenseye — Authority: 147
  What is it? The Transformation Project is an informal learning project, focussing on the D/deaf, Hard of Hearing, Deafened and Deafblind members of our community in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. What does it do? The Project offers a variety of different activities for members of our community to ...
  1 week ago

• Cochlear implantation under the first year of age – the outcomes. A critical systematic review and meta-analysis

  
  COMD News — Authority: 156
  Bottom-line conclusion: Neuroplasticity/neurolinguistic issues have led cochlear implant centers to implant deaf children in infancy; however, widespread policies regarding the aforementioned issue are still not justified. Evidence of these children’s outperformance regarding auditory perception/speech production ...
  1 week ago

• Sesame Street Reaches Middle Age

  
  What Sorts of People — Authority: 125
  As someone as interested as much in the sorts of people we as a society think valuable as in the processes that we use to produce more of those we value, and fewer of those we don’t, I was was struck by a brilliant post last week at Like a Whisper on a topic that [...]
  1 week ago

• The “Signing Futures”

  
  Citizenseye — Authority: 147
  Project is coming to the Leicester Children’s Library, Belvoir Street,(opposite Fenwicks) Leicester When? December 21st 2009 and January 4th 2010 Time? 10.00 am until 11.30 am (ages 5—10) 2.00pm until 3.30pm (ages 10+) Come and enjoy some fun at our British Sign Language Taster Sessions Everyone ...
  1 week ago

• The Daily Habit: Science

  
  The 115- Fear and Loathing in America: Random Babble from the Red-Eyed Counterculture — Authority: 141
  Gestures in the Brain http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/gesturesprocessedinbrainslanguagecenter
  2 weeks ago

• Pilot study on the effectiveness of the conventional CROS, the transcranial CROS and the BAHA transcranial CROS in adults with unilateral inner ear deafness

  
  COMD News — Authority: 156
  The objective of the present pilot study is to evaluate the effectiveness of three conventional contralateral routing of sound (CROS) hearing aids in adults with unilateral inner ear deafness. The study included tertiary referral center. Ten patients with unilateral inner ear deafness and normal hearing in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• REVIEW: A Hearing Heart by Bonnie Dee

  
  Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary — Authority: 141
  Dear Ms Dee, Thanks for offering Dear Author the chance to review your latest historical from Liquid Silver. And then for following up with me to be sure I got the book. I do fall behind on my reviewing at times. After the death of her fiancé, Catherine Johnson, a New York schoolteacher in 1901, travels to ...
  2 weeks ago

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