Most deaf children and adults struggle to read, but some deaf individuals do become highly proficient readers. There is disagreement about the specific causes of reading difficulty in the deaf population, and consequently, disagreement about the effectiveness of different strategies for teaching reading to deaf children. Much of the disagreement surrounds the question of whether deaf children r...

Abstract The chapter presents narrative-theoretical methods for the analysis of narrativization welfare state as shared experience. focus is on early twenty-first-century narrative environments, particularly written forms social media, journalism, institutional communication and fiction. are derived from theories complexity, cognitive narratology, master counter-narratives, agency viral media s...

While serious illness is a crisis in the life course of any human being, it harmonizes particularly poorly with traditional notions masculinity. Statistically, more men than women get cancer, but seem likely to communicate about their emotions and experiences public. In this article, we examine connection between cancer narratives, war combat metaphors hegemonic masculinity based on six recent ...

Healthcare facilities are often complex and overwhelming for visitors, and wayfinding in healthcare facilities can be challenging. As there is an increasing number of global citizens who travel to seek medical care in another country, it is critical to make wayfinding easy for visitors who are not familiar with the language in a foreign country. Among many wayfinding aids, symbols are helpful f...

This study investigates the role of phonological and morphological information in children's developing orthographies in two languages with different linguistic typologies: Hebrew, a Semitic language with a highly synthetic morphology, and Dutch, a Germanic language with a sparse morphology. 192 Israeli and 192 Belgian monolingual schoolchildren in grades 1-6 (aged 6;0-12;0) were administered r...

Narrative is a form of production that incorporate elements such as characters, time, and space. These work together to convey subject actions in temporal context, can be communicated through verbal, written, visual forms. The spatial information different narrative forms represented using variety tools methods. Bakhtin's concept "chronotope" highlights the interdependent nature time space text...