introduction: a deaf child creates a feeling of stigma in many hearing parents. stigma in mothers can have a negative impact on a child’s treatment and rehabilitation process. therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate the extent of stigma in mothers with deaf children.  materials and methods: this descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted in 2013 among 90 mothers with deaf children...

OBJECTIVES (1) To evaluate the recognition of words, phonemes and lexical tones in audiovisual (AV) and auditory-only (AO) modes in Mandarin-speaking adults with cochlear implants (CIs); (2) to understand the effect of presentation levels on AV speech perception; (3) to learn the effect of hearing experience on AV speech perception. METHODS Thirteen deaf adults (age = 29.1±13.5 years; 8 male,...

The phenomenon of change blindness has received a great deal of attention during the last decade, but very few experiments have examined the effects of the subjective importance of the visual stimuli under study. We have addressed this question in a series of studies by introducing choice as a critical variable in change detection (see Johansson, Hall, Sikström, & Olsson, 2005, Johansson, Hall,...

Increasingly, Deaf activists claim that it can be good to be Deaf. Still, much of the hearing world remains unconvinced, and continues to think of deafness in negative terms. I examine this debate and argue that to determine whether it can be good to be deaf it is necessary to examine each claimed advantage or disadvantage of being deaf, and then to make an overall judgment regarding the net co...

The Vowel Correcter, a device giving visual information about the identity of vowels spoken in monosyllabic words, was tested on a group of deaf boys. The description of the actual experiment is preceded by a number of considerations relating to the application of an articulation correcter in a speech therapy program for the deaf. The deaf subjects participating in the experiment were divided i...

Previous research has been equivocal about whether deaf children can develop rhyme awareness. The current experiment investigates the rhyme skills of deaf children (mean age 11 years). Deaf children’s ability to make rhyme judgements was above chance, but poorer than that of their reading matched hearing controls. We conclude that deaf children do have a degree of rhyme awareness. We also discu...

Investigations in animal models and humans have indicated that congenital deafness produces degenerative changes in the central auditory pathway. The cochlear nucleus is the first central structure that receives cochlear input, and may be considered the origin of ascending auditory pathways. In this context, we studied congenitally deaf white cats, who express early onset cochlear receptor loss...

BACKGROUND Education is a basic prerequisite for d/Deaf people's health. Deaf education varies considerably from country to country and we still know very little about the reasons for such variation. OBJECTIVE To identify international megatrends that influence the current Deaf bilingual education move (Deaf Bilingual-Bicultural education; DBiBi) worldwide. METHODS Using the Delphi techniqu...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The quality of communication between physician and patient is a major contributor to patient satisfaction and treatment adherence. Deaf patients who use American Sign Language experience significant communication barriers in most medical settings. This study investigated factors impacting deaf patients' satisfaction with prenatal care and prenatal care disparities betw...

deaf is used in two contexts: firstly, when referring to all deaf people in general (hence, deaf football); and secondly, when writing specifically about those deaf people for whom deafness means being unable to hear, rather than having any linguistic or cultural connotations. This group includes those people who refer to themselves as ‘deafened’, ‘hard of hearing’, ‘hearing impaired’ and other...