Deaf people who use British Sign Language (BSL) as a first or preferred language are a recognised minority group in the UK. The body of evidence on Deaf people’s substance use is negligible. Clinicians working in a specialist psychiatric service for Deaf people, serving the south of England, surveyed the service’s caseload of Deaf psychiatric patients, using an alcohol screening instrument tran...

Nowadays technology has been used for numerous purposes and it is still possible to find applications and solutions not explored before that could bring benefits to part of the population that has not received attention from many researches yet. This paper aims to present the main needs of deaf-blind people, their demands and a proposal of a mobile solution to facilitate and expand interpersona...

This is a Social integration of the deaf and dump people. They people communication media only finger of hand movement, they are interact with each other of hand movement but normal people doesn’t communicate with deaf and dump people because the normal people can’t undusted language of sign. This cause the isolation of deaf people in the society. In this paper a method of image capturing and f...

BACKGROUND People who are deaf use health care services differently than the general population; little research has been carried out to understand the reasons. OBJECTIVE To better understand the health care experiences of deaf people who communicate in American Sign Language. DESIGN Qualitative analyses of focus group discussions in 3 U.S. cities. PARTICIPANTS Ninety-one deaf adults who ...

Previous research suggested an unexplained difference in the patterns of offending behaviors among deaf people when compared to hearing people. This study, conducted in Texas, compares the incidence and types of violent offenses of a deaf prison population in comparison to the hearing prison population. Sixty-four percent of deaf prisoners were incarcerated for violent offenses in comparison to...

In this paper, the implementation of Finger-Braille interfaces for navigation of Deaf-Blind people and the ubiquitous environment for barrier-free application are described. Finger-Braille is one of the commonly used communication methods among Deaf-Blind people in Japan. Two types of Finger-Braille devices, the vibration motor type and the solenoid type, are developed. Each device is connected...

The paper discusses the main issues regarding the reading skills and comprehension proficiency in written Bulgarian of people with communication difficulties, and deaf people, in particular. We consider several key components of text comprehension which pose a challenge for deaf readers and propose a rule-based system for automatic modification of Bulgarian texts intended to facilitate comprehe...

Deaf people are more heavily affected by the digital divide than many would expect. Moreover, most accessibility guidelines addressing their needs just deal with captioning and audio-content transcription. However, this approach to the problem does not consider that deaf people have big troubles with vocal languages, even in their written form. At present, only a few organizations, like W3C, pr...

This article considers dense social interactions in commuter trains and their crucial role within city-wide networks. Literature on social interactions in public transport has focused on how commuters have short interactions with each other, or constitute groups of train friends, but without situating them in wider geographies. The article focuses on deaf people in the Mumbai metropolis who tra...

This paper investigates the personal experiences of hearing adults with signing Deaf parents in their families, school, and society. In order to obtain relevant information, in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 Cypriot hearing adults with Deaf parents between the ages of 21 and 30 years with different occupation, sex, and educational background. It was found that most of t...