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Perceptual Not Attitudinal Factors Predict the Accuracy of Estimating Other Women’s Bodies in Both Women With Anorexia Nervosa and Controls

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Disturbance in how one’s body shape and size is experienced, usually including over-estimation of one’s own body size, is a core feature of the diagnostic criteria of anorexia nervosa (AN). Is this over-estimation specific to women with AN’s judgments of
Lucinda J. Gledhill, Hannah R. George, Martin J. Tovée   +2 more
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Attitudes and experiences regarding preventive strategies for the deaf population in Western New York.

PLOS Global Public Health, 2023
People for whom English is a second language, such as the deaf population, often have unequal access to health information and low health literacy. In the context of a wider study on risk of tick-borne illness in deaf communities, we explored barriers ...
Lorne Farovitch, Carol Padden, Edwin vanWijngaarden, Benjamin Miller, Brian Leydet, Timothy Dye   +5 more
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Factors contributing to communication skills development in cochlear implanted children [PDF]

Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2015
Background/Aim. Over the last 10 years more than 300 persons received cochlear implant in Serbia and more than 90% of the recipients were children under 10 years of age.
Ostojić Sanja, Đoković Sanja, Radić-Šestić Marina, Nikolić Mina, Mikić Branka, Mirić Danica   +5 more
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“It’s beyond enough”: teachers’ experiences and perspectives of rehabilitation inclusion for working with deaf and hard of hearing children in rural areas of China

BMC Public Health
Background Evidence suggests that individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) are a heterogeneous population and may present with their unique needs that set them apart from general disability group.
Zhizhuo Wang, Wangwei Lin, Hong Qiu, Zebo Lan   +3 more
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The humanistic approach in physiotherapy

South African Journal of Physiotherapy, 1977
Die skryfster beklemtoon die belong van motivering raadgewing as deel van die rol wat die fisioterapeut het, in 'n noue en dikwels intieme verwantskap met n pasient wat gerehabiliteer word. Hierdie verwantskap vloei voort uit die fisieke kontak gedurende
N. Lennard
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Language as a Window to the Mind: Parental Mental State Language in Relation to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children’s Social–Emotional Skills

Behavioral Sciences
Early parent–child interactions are crucial for children’s social–emotional development. Mental state talk (MST)—language referring to thoughts, feelings, and intentions—is a key contributor.
Lizet Ketelaar, Nadine P. W. D. de Rue, Eva de Boer, Evelien Dirks   +3 more
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Sense of Community: The Irish Deaf Community

Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 2021
There is a strong perception among members of the Irish deaf community that the community is in gradual decline, with dwindling traditional bases for producing Irish Sign Language (ISL) users.
John Bosco Conama
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The contribution of phonological knowledge, memory, and language background to reading comprehension in deaf populations

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
While reading is challenging for many deaf individuals, some become proficient readers. Yet we do not know the component processes that support reading comprehension in these individuals.
Elizabeth Ann Hirshorn, Elizabeth Ann Hirshorn, Matthew William Geoffrey Dye, Peter eHauser, Ted Roland Supalla, Daphne eBavelier, Daphne eBavelier   +6 more
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DEAF-DEAF-DIFFERENT. ambiguities of being deaf in Benin

, 2022
Deaf lives are shaped by individual and social biographies, access to social and educational infrastructures, and the kinds of deafness a person is born with or acquires. In Benin – as in many other parts of the global south where medical and geographic conditions foster illnesses that produce hearing loss – there is a higher incidence of deafness ...
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Bodies in Dependence: A Foucauldian Genealogy of the Americans with Disabilities Acts

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2019
The Americans with Disabilities Acts (ADA) of 1990 and 2008 are laws imagined as enacting two goals: enhancing civil rights and reducing sociopolitical discrimination for Americans with disabilities; however, findings from this study strongly contrast ...
Michael E. Skyer
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