Hearing impairment

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Hearing impairment”

• Heartbreaking

  
  Jazzie and Tahlia — Authority: 126
  Jazzie has been talking a lot about the fact that she wishes she wasnt deaf. As she was snuggling with me in bed this morning, she mentioned it again. Here are some of the things she said: "Being deaf is the worst thing in my life". "Being deaf is boring". "Being deaf is such bad luck". And the one that got me the ...
  1 day ago

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

  
  disabilityresourcelinks.com — Authority: 149
    PhillyBurbs.com:  Now he can hear what he was missing
  2 days ago

• Imagine

  
  Jazzie and Tahlia — Authority: 126
  I LOVE the show Glee. It is definitely one of my all time favorite shows. Here is a link to a clip of one of Glees finest moments. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxG1eGlOhMg Please watch it if you have not seen it. This scene brought me to tears. It spoke to me because I love the song. It spoke to me because I ...
  3 days ago

• YouTube Captioning Makes Video More Accessible for All

  
  on dot-gov — Authority: 402
  Dear Google/YouTube, We want it. We want it NOW! xoxo, Your Dot-gov Buddies A big barrier to making video content available to people who cant hear is creating captions for the audio--like the closed captioning you see on TV. This is especially important to government because we are required-- by law and ...
  1 week ago

• Good to meet you: Brenda Larkin

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  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

• Phonemic restoration by hearing-impaired listeners with mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss

  
  COMD News — Authority: 156
  The auditory system is capable of perceptually restoring inaudible portions of speech. This restoration may be compromised as a result of hearing impairment, particularly if it is combined with advanced age, because of degradations in the bottom-up and top-down processes. To test this hypothesis, phonemic restoration ...
  1 week ago

• Phonemic restoration by hearing-impaired listeners with mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss

  
  COMD News — Authority: 156
  The auditory system is capable of perceptually restoring inaudible portions of speech. This restoration may be compromised as a result of hearing impairment, particularly if it is combined with advanced age, because of degradations in the bottom-up and top-down processes. To test this hypothesis, phonemic restoration ...
  1 week ago

• Need Closed Captioning? Rental Version of Up Doesn’t Have It

  
  Toddlers and Tykes — Authority: 463
  Image via Wikipedia Perhaps trying something new to persuade consumers to go out and buy the full DVD of Pixar’s Up, Disney has removed all the ‘extras’ from the rental version of UP.  The extras on the hit movie apparently include closed captioning for the hearing impaired. Disney has confirmed the move, ...
  2 weeks ago

• System to Simulate and Reproduce Audio-Visual Environments for Spatial Hearing Research

  
  COMD News — Authority: 156
  The article reports the experience gained from two implementations of the “Simulated Open-Field Environment” (SOFE), a setup that allows sounds to be played at calibrated levels over a wide frequency range from multiple loudspeakers in an anechoic chamber. Playing sounds from loudspeakers in the free-field has the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mouse Study Sheds Light On Hearing Loss In Older Adults

  
  disabilityresourcelinks.com — Authority: 149
    Mouse Study Sheds Light On Hearing Loss In Older Adults
  2 weeks ago

• Genotype-Phenotype Correlation for DFNA22: Characterization of Non-Syndromic, Autosomal Dominant, Progressive Sensorineural Hearing Loss due to MYO6 Mutations

  
  COMD News — Authority: 156
  Clinical and audiological examination was done in 2 Belgian families with autosomal dominant sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) linked to DFNA22. Nineteen subjects in family 1 had mild to moderate SNHL starting in the third decade. The hearing loss was characterized by a flat audiogram affecting all tested frequencies ...
  3 weeks ago

• India’s deaf may get licence to drive

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Kanu SardaNew Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) India is one of the few countries in the world where the hearing impaired are not allowed to drive. But this may change soon, with the government informing the Delhi High Court it is considering changing its rules.“We are considering issuing driving licences to hearing impaired ...
  3 weeks ago

• Parents’ views on the quality of life of their children 2–3 years after cochlear implantation

  
  COMD News — Authority: 156
  Conclusions Parents report that cochlear implants affect their children in a wide variety of ways that cannot be summarized by a single scale. A broader descriptive framework is required to capture their experiences adequately. from the International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
  3 weeks ago

• Education, Occupation, Noise Exposure History and the 10-yr Cumulative Incidence of Hearing Impairment in Older Adults

  
  COMD News — Authority: 156
  The purpose of this study was to determine the 10-yr cumulative incidence of hearing impairment and associations of education, occupation and noise exposure history with the incidence of hearing impairment in a population-based cohort study of 3753 adults ages 48-92 years at the baseline examinations during 1993-1995 ...
  4 weeks ago

• What are the causes of hearing loss?

  
  Health Information Plus — Authority: 115
  We love to listen to music, I think everybody has their own type of genre, But, does loud music can cause loss of our sense of hear? But we all know that sounds are obviously tolerated for many years. Now the sounds are very much acceptable, but of course the sound should also be in an acceptable or reasonable range. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Gaming headphones from Able Planet [Review]

  
  GamingAngels — Authority: 573
  I was recently approached about reviewing Abel Planet’s new gaming headphones, and after reading about the PS500MM I was intrigued to check them out! Abel Planet traditionally has made products for people with disabilities, and they have expanded their product line to address the concern of younger people ...
  5 weeks ago

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