In the rural sector of India there is a large number of hearing impaired persons. With moderate or acute hearing loss Hearing impaired persons, suffer from opportunities for communicating with others Presently the conventional analog hearing aids have a number of functional limitations such as fixed frequency, lack of flexibility, can’t distinguish speech from noise, etc. The Digital hearing ai...

In the Teleface project the possibility to use a synthetic face as a visual telephone communication aid for hearing impaired persons is evaluated. In an earlier study, NH, a group of normal hearing persons participated. This paper describes the results of two multimodal intelligibility tests with hearing impaired persons, where the additional information provided by a synthetic as well as a nat...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the use of medicines and the main therapeutic groups consumed by persons with physical, hearing and visual disabilities. METHODS A cross-sectional study was performed, where data from the 2002 Inquérito Multicêntrico de Saúde no Estado de São Paulo (ISA-SP - São Paulo State Multicenter Health Survey), as well as the 2003 Inquérito de Saúde no Município de São Paulo (ISA-C...

objectives: the prevalence of consanguineous marriage is about 30 % in iran and this can increase the probability of incidence of genetic impairments such as hearing impairments. hearing impairment in comparison with other hereditary disorders is the most incident. the purpose of this survey is to identify the prevalence of consanguinity among the parents of sensoryneural hearing impaired stude...

This paper aims at giving a brief introduction to the research area of computer animated images of faces used for helping the hearingimpaired. The focus is especially on the progress being made in the Synface project and its predecessor. Some of the basic methods are mentioned and some description of the current state of research is given.

background and aim: autobiography is a kind of narrative writing about a person written by that same person. indeed, it is a type of writing about self that is full of subjectivity and experience. the present study investigated the effect of autobiography method on the comprehension skill of hearing-impaired students. methods: international standardized reading literacy questions (2001) was emp...

KEY FINDINGS Sensory impairments are a substantial problem for older Americans: One out of six has impaired vision; one out of four has impaired hearing; one out of four has loss of feeling in the feet; and three out of four have abnormal postural balance testing. Sensory impairments increase with age: Vision and hearing impairments each double, and loss of feeling in the feet increases by 40% ...

Objectives: The prevalence of consanguineous marriage is about 30 % in Iran and this can increase the probability of incidence of genetic impairments such as hearing impairments. Hearing impairment in comparison with other hereditary disorders is the most incident. The purpose of this survey is to identify the prevalence of consanguinity among the parents of sensoryneural hearing impaired stude...

A prosodic Hidden Markov model (HMM) based modality recognizer has been developed, which, after supra-segmental acoustic pre-processing, can perform clause and sentence boundary detection and modality (sentence type) recognition. This modality recognizer is adapted to carry out automatic evaluation of the intonation of the produced utterances in a speech training system for hearing-impaired per...