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Empowering the deaf. Let the deaf be deaf [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 2000
Deafness is often regarded as just a one and only phenomenon. Accordingly, deaf people are pictured as a unified body of people who share a single problem. From a medical point of view, we find it usual to work with a classification of deafness in which pathologies attributable to an inner ear disorder are segregated from pathologies attributable to an
Muñoz Baell, Irma María   +1 more
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To Deaf or not to deaf: That is the Question [PDF]

open access: yesPsychology, 2019
Names are both personal and political, as they relate to identity. Woodward’s 1975 etic article first mentioned a naming convention for D/deaf and prominent scholars have debated the issue since. To evaluate current preferences, the research team used an online questionnaire to gather emic insights and opinions from the community, as well as a more ...
Ju-Lee A. Wolsey   +3 more
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Transient evoked otoacoustic emissions testing for screening of sensorineural deafness in puppies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
<p><b>Background:</b> Transient evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAE) are widely used for human neonatal deafness screening, but have not been reported for clinical use in dogs.</p> <p><b>Hypothesis/Objectives:< ...
Ahlstrom   +25 more
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The relationship between frontotemporal effective connectivity during picture naming, behavior, and preserved cortical tissue in chronic aphasia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
NIH National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) grant ...
Kapse, Kushal J.   +2 more
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Molecular diagnostics for congenital hearing loss including 15 deafness genes using a next generation sequencing platform [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Background: Hereditary hearing loss (HL) can originate from mutations in one of many genes involved in the complex process of hearing. Identification of the genetic defects in patients is currently labor intensive and expensive.
Bekaert, Sofie   +16 more
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Seeing the Deaf in "Deafness" [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2008
This article draws on some of the existing literature on the politics of identity and representation as related to minority group formation. It applies this to constructions of Deaf2 identity from a cultural and linguistic perspective and contrasts this with dominant constructions of Deaf people as disabled. It highlights a number of ways in which Deaf
openaire   +3 more sources

A destressing "deafness" in French? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
French is a language in which accent is mandatory on the last syllable of every content word. In contrast, Spanish uses accent to distinguish different lexical items (e.g., b'ebe vs beb'e).
Dupoux, E.   +3 more
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Brainstem auditory evoked responses in an equine patient population: part I--adult horses. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
BackgroundBrainstem auditory evoked response has been an underused diagnostic modality in horses as evidenced by few reports on the subject.Hypothesis/objectivesTo describe BAER findings, common clinical signs, and causes of hearing loss in adult horses ...
Aleman, M   +3 more
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How level and type of deafness affects user perception of multimedia video clips [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Our research investigates the impact that hearing has on the perception of digital video clips, with and without captions, by discussing how hearing loss, captions and deafness type affects user QoP (Quality of Perception).
Ghinea, G, Gulliver, SR
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Deaf mute or Deaf

open access: yesAsian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 2017
Hearing loss is a common disorder and can be conductive, sensorineural or mixed types. It can be congenital or acquired. In pediatric population more than 50% of deafness is genetic in origin. The patients may present as Deaf, mute or hard of hearing.
Zaw Lin, Swe, Win Tin, Nang Khin Mya
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