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Multimedia clip type: Quality of perception impact on users with and without hearing loss [PDF]

, 2003
This paper investigates how variance in multimedia video clip type affects quality of perception (QoP) for users ith and without hearing loss. QoP encompasses not only a user's satisfaction with the quality of a multimedia presentation (subjective), but ...
Ghinea, G, Gulliver, SR
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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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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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Negotiation of Deaf Culture: Alternative Realities in the Classroom

, 2014
In a increasingly globalized world, family members of deaf individuals increasingly are faced with a dilemma between identification with Deaf culture or pursuing biomedical intervention in order help deaf children hear sounds artificially. The importance
Hoffman, Drew A.
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Sign of the Times, February 2011 [PDF]

, 2011
Newsletter produced by Deaf Services Commission of ...

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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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Challenging behaviour in an adult male with congenital deaf-blindness: analysis and intervention

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2009
People with severe congenital disabilities have been assessed on negatives, on what they do not have. Skill training and education of these missing abilities have been the major focus for the habilitation since emergence of the normalization ideology in ...
Karl Jacobsen, Bertil Bjerkan, Randi Sørlie   +2 more
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The first signs of language: Phonological development in British sign language [PDF]

, 2007
A total of 1018 signs in one deaf child’s naturalistic interaction with her deaf mother, between the ages 19-24 months were analysed. This study summarises regular modification processes in the phonology of the child sign’s handshape, location, movement ...
Barrett-Jones, S., Morgan, G., Stoneham, H.   +2 more
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Sign of the Times, August 2011 [PDF]

, 2011
Newsletter produced by Deaf Services Commission of ...

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'Children are just lingual': The development of phonology in British Sign Language (BSL) [PDF]

, 2006
This paper explores three universal tendencies in spoken language acquisition: consonant and vowel harmony, cluster reduction and systemic simplification, using a corpus of 1018 signs from a single child exposed to British Sign Language from birth. Child
Morgan, G.
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