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Empowering the deaf. Let the deaf be deaf [PDF]
Journal of Epidemiology and 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]
Psychology, 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 ...
Kimberly K. Pudans-Smith +3 more
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Seeing the Deaf in "Deafness" [PDF]
Journal 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
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Emx2 regulates hair cell rearrangement but not positional identity within neuromasts
eLife, 2020 Each hair cell (HC) precursor of zebrafish neuromasts divides to form two daughter HCs of opposite hair bundle orientations. Previously, we showed that transcription factor Emx2, expressed in only one of the daughter HCs, generates this bidirectional HC ...
Sho Ohta +3 more
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BMC Medical Genetics, 2019 Background Recessive mutations of coding regions and splice sites of the SLC26A4 gene cause hearing loss with enlargement of the vestibular aqueduct (EVA).
Janet R. Chao +8 more
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Disabilities in the Writing Center [PDF]
, 2015 Since writing centers serve communities of teachers and learners, they will inevitably serve people with disabilities. Ever since the 1980s, writing center workers have explored the issue of tutoring students with disabilities, people who may require ...
Babcock, Rebecca Day
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Behavioral models of tinnitus and hyperacusis in animals
Frontiers in Neurology, 2014 The phantom perception of tinnitus and reduced sound level tolerance associated with hyperacusis, have a high comorbidity and can be debilitating conditions for which there are no widely accepted treatments.
Sarah H Hayes +3 more
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Characterization of the development of the mouse cochlear epithelium at the single cell level
Nature Communications, 2020 How the development of the cochlear epithelium is regulated is unclear. Here, the authors use single cell RNAseq analysis to provide insight into the transcriptional changes arising during development of the murine cochlear inner and outer hair cells.
Likhitha Kolla +13 more
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BMJ Open, 2021 Introduction Hearing aids are typically programmed using the individual’s audiometric thresholds. Developments in technology have resulted in a new category of direct-to-consumer devices, which are not programmed using the individual’s audiometric ...
Kevin J Munro +2 more
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Bone conductive implants in single sided deafness [PDF]
, 2015 Conclusion: The Bone Conductive Implants (BCI) showed to partly restore some of the functions lost when the binaural hearing is missing, such as in the single-sided deafness (SSD) subjects.
ATTURO, FRANCESCA +4 more
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