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...

It is almost 150 years since Sir William Wilde (Figure 1), one of the first surgeons to call himself an Otologist, and the father of the celebrated writer, Oscar, considered the causes of deafness in this pessimistic way. The present situation is very different, and in this chapter the causes of hearing impairments and the many strategies that can be utilized to rehabilitate hearing-impaired in...

background: participation is an important component in a child’s growth, which is not just affected by child's functional abilities, skills, interests and family culture; but also affected by the physical, social and institutional environment. hearing and visual impairment in children may cause growth delay including cognitive, mobility and communication skills. the aim of this study was to com...

Two experiments explored the taxonomic organization of mental lexicons in deaf and hearing college students. Experiment 1 used a single-word association task to examine relations between categories and their members. Results indicated that both groups' lexical knowledge is similar in terms of overall organization, with associations between category names and exemplars stronger for hearing stude...

introduction: human hands are efficient tools to do fine works, game, and routine activities, which are of greater consideration in students with special needs, including hearing-impaired students. materials and methods: this descriptive-analytical study was performed by cross-sectional method on 32 hearing-impaired students with age average of 8.43 years old in hamedan in the academic years 20...

Eskander and Papsin1 may be somewhat disingenuous in their plea for neonatal screening for deafness. Underlying this notion is the unspoken concept that, having detected a hearing impairment in an infant, it is required that we treat him or her with a cochlear implant. Although early placement of cochlear implants may well foster acquisition of the spoken language of the larger community, as im...

This study attempts to answer the question if any level of head and neck circulation takes a part in development of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (ARMD) and hearing and equilibrium impairments. Condition of large blood vessels was examined by Color-Doppler ultrasound, and carotid and ophthalmic arteries were included. The microcirculatory changes were examined directly by fundus photography ...