Hearing loss is an economically and socially important cause of human morbidity. It is estimated that at least 20% of the population develop clinically significant hearing loss at some time during their lives. Hereditary hearing loss occurs in approximately 1/2000 newborns. During the past five years, dramatic advances have been made in the mapping of more than 60 loci for non-syndromic deafnes...

The Experiences of Emergency-Remote Teaching Via Zoom: Case Natural-Science Teachers Handling Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Learners in South Africa.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the unique health care issues of deaf and hard-of-hearing (D&HH) persons by studying their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors toward preventive medicine. DESIGN A self-administered, cross-sectional survey, written in a format comprehensible to persons whose primary language is American Sign Language. POPULATION One hundred forty D&HH persons recruited from southeaste...

The study compared psychosocial risk behaviors of adolescents who were deaf or hard of hearing with those of their hearing peers in a residential treatment facility. Statistically significant differences emerged between groups. The adolescents who were deaf or hard of hearing demonstrated clinically higher scores than those of their hearing peers on the psychosocial risk behaviors of risk to ot...

Hearing loss is an economically and socially important cause of human morbidity. It is estimated that at least 20% of the population develop clinically significant hearing loss at some time during their lives. Hereditary hearing loss occurs in approximately 1/2000 newborns. During the past five years, dramatic advances have been made in the mapping of more than 60 loci for non-syndromic deafnes...

BACKGROUND Achieving patient-centered care requires effective communication between physicians and patients. Persons who are deaf or hard of hearing face considerable barriers to communicating with physicians. OBJECTIVE To understand perceptions of health care experiences and suggestions for improving care among deaf or hard-of-hearing individuals. DESIGN 4 semistructured group interviews, ...

Patients who are deaf and hard of hearing often find the American healthcare system to be inaccessible due to communication barriers. This article describes facilities' and providers' requirements under the Americans with Disabilities Act to provide qualified interpreters and other assistive devices to patients who are deaf or hard of hearing. Removing communication barriers can protect healthc...

Data from the 1999-2000 Annual Survey of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children and Youth (GRI Annual Survey; Gallaudet Research Institute, 2000) are systematically compared with those summarized by the U.S. Department of Education (2001, 2002) in the Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to estimate the degree to which findings bas...

Under a grant to improve outcomes for students who are deaf or hard of hearing awarded to the Association of College Educators--Deaf/Hard of Hearing, a team identified content that all teachers of students who are deaf and hard of hearing must understand and be able to teach. Also identified were 20 practices associated with content standards (10 each, literacy and science/mathematics). Thirty-...