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Electronic Physician, 2017 Background: Deaf or hard-of-hearing children experience difficulties in learning health principles. But technology has significantly improved their ability to learn.
Masoumeh Abbasi, +3 more
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“Lovelies on Wheels”: The Politics of Miss Wheelchair America, 1972–1977
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the Miss Wheelchair America pageant in the 1970s as a cultural and political space that produced a specific message about the intersections of womanhood, disability, and citizenship. The pageant elevated contestants who performed normative femininity, beauty, heterosexuality, and whiteness, while narratively framing ...
Moira Armstrong
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An evaluation of a communicative intervention programme for hearing caregivers and their deaf children in a developing context [PDF]
, 2005 Includes bibliographical references (p. 398-428).This study set out to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention programme, in a developing context within an ecological framework that involves parents througp parent training adopting a parent-child ...
Hurt, Sharon
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Australian Royal Commissions Into Child Welfare, Abuse and Protection
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Both nationally and internationally, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (RCIRCSA) is widely viewed as a remarkably successful public inquiry. Unlike many other commissions, it was stable, attracted little controversy, was highly regarded, and led to extensive legal, regulatory and policy reform ...
Shurlee Swain, Katie Wright
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Reading metacomprehension of Spanish deaf and hard-of-hearing students. [PDF]
J Deaf Stud Deaf EducDifficulties in monitoring reading comprehension result in poor comprehension. One key aspect of monitoring is metacomprehension, which refers to one’s awareness of one’s own reading comprehension.
Rodríguez-Ortiz IR +2 more
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Annual report (Arizona Commission for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing)
, 2004 The Arizona Commission for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing was established in 1977 to improve the quality of life for deaf and hard of hearing residents. It serves as a statewide information referral center for issues related to people with hearing loss,
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Burying Futures: Artisanal Mining Deaths and the Politics of Negligence in Zimbabwe
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the gold‐mining town of Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe, injury and death are a constant presence. Collapsing shafts, sudden explosions, gang fights, and neglected health infrastructure characterize the everyday lives of the town's impoverished residents.
Melusi Nkomo
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Retinal dystrophies simulating geographic atrophy: A diagnostic challenge
Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.Abstract Geographic atrophy (GA) is the chronic loss of retinal pigment epithelium, photoreceptors and choriocapillaris, marking the dry late stage of age‐related macular degeneration (AMD). GA prevalence is expected to rise in the upcoming decades. Advanced GA leads to central scotomas, reducing visual acuity and quality of life, potentially resulting
Johanna M. Colijn +3 more
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Subtitling for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
, 2022 Subtitling for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH) is a multimodal translation modality which is aimed at conveying information transmitted aurally (dialogues, music, and sound effects) through the verbal written mode. It can be open (in audiovisual productions), closed (in teletext) or live (in opera or any live TV program).
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Deaf and Hard of Hearing Education in Idaho Council Recommendations: Recommendation Report
, 2006 Idaho Council for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing ...
Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Idaho Council for the;
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