Communication strategies of the hearing impaired

examining the relationship between fear of negative evaluation and communication strategies by iranian efl learners

the purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between fear of negative evaluation (fne) and communication strategies (css) among iranian efl learners. it was aimed to examine the differences in the use of communication strategies between speakers with high or low degree of fear of negative evaluation. the current study was a case study consisting of 10 english learners at...

Comparison of the Speech Syntactic Features between Hearing-Impaired and Normal Hearing Children

Introduction: The present study seeks to describe and analyze the syntactic features of children with severely hearing loss who had access to the hearing aids compared with children with normal hearing, assigning them to the same separate gender classes.   Materials and Methods: In the present study, eight children with severe hearing impairment who used a hearing aid and eight hearing children...

Gestural Interfaces for Hearing-Impaired Communication

Gestural interfaces, besides providing natural means of humancomputer interaction for everyone, enable the hearing impaired to use sign language or better understand speech through vision. This chapter overviews (1) the various modalities involved in gestured languages (2) the mean to automatically apprehend them individually and (3) to fuse them in order to provide a communication medium adapt...

10 Gestural Interfaces for Hearing-Impaired Communication

Recent research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has focused on equipping machines with means of communication that are used between humans, such as speech and accompanying gestures. For the hearing impaired , the visual components of speech, such as lip movements, or ges-tural languages such as sign language are available means of communication. This has led researchers to focus on lip read...

Strategies for the Inclusion of Hearing Impaired People