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Building community for deaf scientists
Science, 2017BIOMEDICAL WORKFORCE diversity enhances research quality and creativity and broadens the research agenda ([ 1 ][1]). However, deaf and hard-of-hearing (D/HH) individuals remain strikingly underrepresented among biomedical researchers ([ 2 ][2]).
Gerry, Buckley +4 more
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Genetics and Deafness: Impacts on the Deaf Community
Sign Language Studies, 2002Genetics has great relevance to the lives of deaf people. More than half of all deafness that is present at birth or in early childhood is caused by genetic factors. The reaction of deaf people to genetics has depended, in part, on sociohistorical events of the past and, for some, experiences with genetics professionals who have little or no ...
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Childhood Deafness in the European Community
Scandinavian Audiology, 1981This is a summary of a report which was the result of an epidemiological investigation, carried out under the sponsorship of the Commission for the European Communities (CEC) and its Committee on Medical and Public Health Research (CRM) in the nine countries of the European Community, in order to determine the prevalence of childhood deafness.
J A, Martin +10 more
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Racism Within the Deaf Community
American Annals of the Deaf, 2022G B, Anderson, F G, Bowe
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Deaf Education and the Deaf Community in Australia
2009In Deaf People Around the World: Educational and Social Perspectives, the leading researchers in 30 nations describe the shared developmental, social, and educational issues facing deaf people filtered through the prism of unique national, regional, ethnic, and racial realities. Editors Donald F. Moores and Margery S.
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International communication: A dialogue of the deaf?
Political Communication, 1982Abstract International communication has come increasingly under the impact of at least three major technological, socio‐economic, and political forces: expanded channels of communication provided by technological developments, democratizing pressures that have brought new voices to be heard in international media and forums, and new but as yet weak ...
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Communicating effectively with deaf patients
Nursing Standard, 2006This article explores the communication needs of deaf patients who use British Sign Language as their first or preferred language. It would appear that these needs are not being met, particularly in acute hospital settings. Practical advice is provided for nurses to improve the quality of care that deaf patients receive.
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Peer Education and the Deaf Community
Journal of American College Health, 1993Gallaudet University, the world's only liberal arts university for deaf students, has recently established a peer health education program. This program is unique because of the population it is designed to serve and the rich culture within which the program exists.
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Identity, deaf culture, and deaf community
Abstract Many children, adolescents, and adults who are deaf and their families value a deaf identity, membership of the deaf community, and participation in deaf culture. Some of them see cochlear implantation as potentially endangering identity formation that could result in negative effects on mental health.Harry Knoors, Evelien Dirks
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Development of Communication Aids for the Deaf
Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 1978This paper is written primarily for the reader who is not expert in areas of communicative disorders nor actively engaged in research on devices to assist persons with hearing impairments. The intent is to provide a brief introduction and to explain some of the challenges associated with development of sensory aids for the deaf.
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