Video communication systems for deaf people are limited in terms of quality and performance. Analysis of visual attention mechanisms for sign language may enable optimization of video coding systems for deaf users. Eye-movement tracking experiments were conducted with profoundly deaf volunteers while watching sign language video clips. Deaf people are found to fixate mostly on the facial region...

New educational and cultural horizons for the deaf were made possible in 1958 when the U.S. Congress enacted P.L. 85-905, thereby creating the Captioned Films for the Deaf program, which is a free-loan service of subtitled motion pictures similar in nature to the free-loan service of “Talking Books for the Blind.” Beginning with an initial appropriation of enabled deaf persons to experience peo...

This paper presents the design and development of an e-learning course in teaching deaf people in a foreign language, whose first language is the sign language. The course is based in e-material, vodcasting and web 2.0 tools such as social networking and blog The course has been designed especially for deaf people and it is exploring the possibilities that e-learning material vodcasting and web...

OBJECTIVE This article aims to examine data on Psychiatric diagnoses among deaf people in comparison with hearing people in the psychiatric hospital in Beau-Vallon. METHOD This work proposes to study the diagnostic data from the Summary Psychiatric Minimum (Résumé psychiatrique minimum: RPM) from the years 2000 until 2009 from the psychiatric hospital Beau Vallon and for which a hearing probl...

Deafness is a heterogeneous condition with far-reaching effects on social, emotional, and cognitive development. Many regard themselves as members of a cultural minority who use sign language. They should not continue to be neglected in research on depression. The purpose of this article is to investigate depression among the deaf people based on researches results. We identified relevant studi...

Differently abled people face a variety of different issue and problems that cut them off from their surroundings. Regardless of all the advancement, we cannot ignore the fact that the conditions provided by the society for the deaf and hard hearing are still far from being perfect. The communication with deaf and hard hearing by means of written text is not as efficient as it might seem at fir...

The cochlear implant or bionic ear, is a small device that can be implanted under the skin and within the cochlear, and has been developed to assist profoundly deaf people. The device is quite different from a hearing aid, as it does not amplify sound, but replaces 'natural' sound with coded, electronic 'messages' which describe sound. For the first time in history, people who are technically, ...

In a single study, silent speechreading and signed language processing were investigated using fMRI. Deaf native signers of British sign language (BSL) who were also proficient speechreaders of English were the focus of the research. Separate analyses contrasted different aspects of the data. In the first place, we found that the left superior temporal cortex, including auditory regions, was st...

We propose a computational system to be used by deaf people as a tool in their written Spanish language learning. Natural Language Processing techniques were used to build the computer program in order to analyze and validate obtained results in the offered exercises. Two problems are offered in the computer program. Both of them are intended to improve Spanish writing abilities in deaf people....

This study explored the interaction between the spatial distribution of attention during inhibition of return (IOR) and different levels of flanker interference in congenitally deaf subjects as compared with hearing subjects. Color (Experiment 1) and alphanumeric (Experiment 2) flanker interference effects were differentiated into the pre-response and the response levels. The spatial distributi...